willisoften Posted September 22, 2005 Report Share Posted September 22, 2005 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted September 22, 2005 Report Share Posted September 22, 2005 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). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willisoften Posted September 22, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 22, 2005 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..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramfree17 Posted September 22, 2005 Report Share Posted September 22, 2005 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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