Pacman

[willisoften]

I tried Arch before and just wasn't all that impressed but the install was relatively problem free. I went back to Debian - then tried Ubuntu. Then decided to try Arch again.

 

Pacman continually freezes at 99% - the only reference I can find to this on the Arch sites is a bug report - marked fixed. Theres a reference to a workaround but no link.

 

So can anyone tell me how to get round this? I was looking to find out how to restart pacman but don't see anything.

[scarecrow]

You can try switching from curl to wget, which is more tolerant to router peculiarities.

Edit /etc/pacman.conf and uncomment the XferCommand line under [options]

This can also be a mirror specific issue- have you tried switching your repository mirrors? ( from the /etc/pacman.d directory).

[willisoften]

I switched repositories but all that happened was that I got into a loop that cited "Some packages failed to down load would you like to try another repository?" I started the install again and it ran through without problems - just a huge amount of stuff to configure now.....

[ramfree17]

i dont encounter that on my home system because i usually download the packages and install them at home from a local drive. if you have the spare space and bandwidth maybe you could mirror the packages you want locally?

 

ciao!