[pacman-dev] pacman problems

[Ionut Biru]

On 03/18/2010 11:20 AM, antonio.grande at uniroma1.it wrote:
>
> I'am a newbie so please thank you for your patience.
> Executing
> pacman -S samba
> I've this
> error: failed retriving file 'tdb-1.2.0-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz'
> But both two mirrors I've in my etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist contain the filename "tdb-1.2.1-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz" where there is a
> difference about the version 1.2.1 and also in the extension .xz instead of .gz
> My pacman version is 3.3.3-1 which is the latest. Someone can help me? Thank you. Antonio Grande
>

this is the devel mailing list and a good place to ask this question 
should be on arch-general, irc or forum.
to answer your question, pacman -Syu and then pacman -S samba. your 
database is way to old and tdb package is now in repos at version 1.2.1

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Ionut