[arch-general] What is a pacman "download library error"?

2019-03-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
Hi, installing a package with "pacman -U URL" fails. Downloading with "wget -q URL" and installing the file with "pacman -U" works. [rocketmouse@archlinux tmp]$ sudo pacman -U https://mex.mirror.pkgbuild.com/community-testing/os/x86_64/lxpanel-0.10.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz error: failed

[arch-general] adding to capacity to /

2019-03-09 Thread pete via arch-general
Hi folks . i have a problem when i built this system i thought i had allowed enough space for the / partition but it seems now i was wrong . I do not really want to start again and rebuild the system . I have several spare drives lurking is it possible to add space to the partition by adding

Re: [arch-general] adding to capacity to /

2019-03-09 Thread Georg Pfahler
Hi Pete, you could rsync your system to another partition, create a new, greater, encrypted partition and rsync everything back. there's an article on the wiki about backing up root partitions with rsync! worked for me a couple of times. regards -- Georg Pfahler On March 9, 2019 9:26:01

Re: [arch-general] What is a pacman "download library error"?

2019-03-09 Thread Tinu Weber
On Sat, Mar 09, 2019 at 19:57:11 +0100, Ralf Mardorf via arch-general wrote: > installing a package with "pacman -U URL" fails. > Downloading with "wget -q URL" and installing the file with "pacman -U" > works. Unless I'm mistaken, pacman uses curl by default (unless XferCommand is set) (or more

Re: [arch-general] What is a pacman "download library error"?

2019-03-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Sun, 10 Mar 2019 00:00:48 +0100, Tinu Weber wrote: >That being said, for me, pacman/curl downloads that file just fine In the meantime it works for me, too. Only one package was updated in the meantime. The package is "iana-etc". *?* $ pactree -r iana-etc | grep pacman │ └─pacman-contrib

Re: [arch-general] What is a pacman "download library error"?

2019-03-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf via arch-general
On Sun, 10 Mar 2019 06:06:53 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >In the meantime it works for me, too. Only one package was updated in >the meantime. The package is "iana-etc". Correction, 2 additional packages from official repositories, "lxrandr" and "npm" and 5 from AUR, "diylc",