[arch-general] pacman error: config file ../mirrorlist, line 193: directive 'Server' not recognized

Aaron Griffin aaronmgriffin at gmail.com
Wed Oct 14 17:21:04 EDT 2009


On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 4:18 PM, David C. Rankin
<drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 October 2009 01:38:30 pm Aaron Griffin wrote:
>> I have a feeling you uncommented something (testing?) in
>> /etc/pacman.conf, but didn't uncomment the header for the repo:
>>
>> #[testing]
>> Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
>>
>> This is wrong. The [testing] needs to be uncommented too
>>
>
> I have a feeling you are RIGHT -- as usual ;-) Thanks!

This is an amazingly common error, for some reason. I think that if a
person is not used to ini-style config files, they don't recognize the
[foo] as a section header


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