If you encounter errors trying to install an application, such as, "error: failed retrieving file 'foobar.pkg.tar.xz' from extra: Not Found", this invariably means one of two things: either your local database is out-of-date and needs to be resynced with a 'pacman -Syyu', or your mirror is out of date and you need to choose one that is up-to-date. ok what i did is i deleted the mirrorlist and was trying to download a new one and i can't download it
at the time i didn't know you can do that my next question is how can i do it in ROOT thank you
On 28.07.2021 13.22, Anthony Givens via arch-mirrors wrote:
> Dear sir or madam i've been working on installing Archlinux on a older
> laptop i was almost finish when i tried to download xorg the
> mirrors,it's really hard to say what the error was but when i try a
> few times it wouldn't download, so i try to see if i can remove the
> older downloads and get some new one but it wouldn't let me so i'm
> between a rock and a hard place what i need is to be able to download
> from root the mirrorlist so i can keep going
> could you help me thank you
Hi Anthony
It is hard to tell what the issue is with so few details.
I would recommend asking for help on IRC[1] or the forum[2].
[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_IRC_channels
[2] https://bbs.archlinux.org/
Best regards
Kristian Klausen