I solved bug http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/6319 changing the source to essential-amd64. pkg size droped down to 240kB and mplayer is still working here. the files went into the new and recommended diretory and a symlink is created to the old location. pacman2 may need switch -force to install and handle the link correctly. pacman3 did it well: [root@workstation64 andyrtr]# pacman -U /var/abs/chroot/current/home/andyrtr/current_packages/codecs-20061203-1.pkg.tar.gz loading package data... done. checking for file conflicts... error: the following file conflicts were found: codecs: /usr/lib/win32: exists in filesystem errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. [root@workstation64 andyrtr]# pacman3 -U /var/abs/chroot/current/home/andyrtr/current_packages/codecs-20061203-1.pkg.tar.gz Lade Paketdaten ... beendet. Prüfe Abhängigkeiten ... beendet. cleaning up... beendet. (1/1) checking for file conflicts [##################################################################################################] 100% (1/1) aktualisiere codecs [##################################################################################################] 100% [root@workstation64 andyrtr]# AndyRTR