[arch-general] ImageMagick package missing from repos

[Karthik K]

"pcaman -Syu" solved the problem


On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 8:14 PM, Doug Newgard <scimmia at archlinux.info>
wrote:

> On 2014-07-31 09:37, Paul Gideon Dann wrote:
>
>> On Thursday 31 Jul 2014 09:07:00 Doug Newgard wrote:
>>
>>> > Your database is probably out of date. Try:
>>> >
>>> > # pacman -Syy
>>> >
>>> > and try again.
>>> >
>>> > Paul
>>>
>>> No, do not do -Syy, do -Syu or -Syyu. -Syy just leads to problems.
>>>
>>
>> It *just* leads to problems? Mmm; it *may* lead to problems, yes.
>> Experience of what
>> happens in practice tells me that it will almost certainly be fine and
>> will avoid a potentially long
>> and unwanted system update in the middle of work.
>>
>> But yes, technically, it's better to do -Syu so that you're not
>> potentially installing a package
>> that was built against another package that you have have an
>> out-of-date version of, possibly
>> leading to the new package segfaulting or failing to launch.
>>
>> Paul
>>
>
> If you do it habitually, yes, you WILL run into problems eventually.
>