--- Eric Belanger wrote:

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Archlinux 86-64 2008-08-2

repo on /etc/pacman.conf ..... #[archlinuxfr] Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/x86_64

on running; $ sudo pacman -Sy yaourt :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date extra is up to date community is up to date error: 'yaourt': not found in sync db * end *

Please advise how to fix the problem. TIA

remove the # in front of [archlinuxfr]

Your advice works for me. Thanks B.R. Stephen L Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

Aaron Griffin wrote:

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:01 PM, Stephen Liu wrote:

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repo on /etc/pacman.conf ..... #[archlinuxfr] Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/x86_64

Could you help me understand why you did it this way? Personally, I am used to the INI config format, which uses [headers] as sections in the config files, so it is straightforward to me, but supposedly people do this way too much. I'd like to understand why the section header seems more like a comment.

Uhm, as I understand it, it looks like a comment because it IS a comment. That's why Eric told him to get rid of the #. I'd say it used to be commented out together with the Server thingy, but wasn't uncommented properly when Stephen wanted to use the repo. Bjørn

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 08:28:58PM +0900, Sebastian Nowicki wrote:

I think Aaron was talking about how people seems to think that the section headings are unimportant and serve as some sort of comment. This results in a lot of problems with servers "not working", because pacman pics up the first server (from the "previous" heading) and succeeds at getting a list.

I'm not sure why people seem to ignore it. I was familiar with ini before I even came to Linux so it was obvious to me. Perhaps people think that pacman just scans all the "Server" addresses, and the headings are unecessary.

I don't understand either... Besides, the following comments were added to the default pacman.conf : # Repository entries are of the format: # [repo-name] # Server = ServerName # Include = IncludePath # # The header [repo-name] is crucial - it must be present and # uncommented to enable the repo. #