pacKage manager? On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:24 AM, David Rosenstrauch <darose@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > David C. Rankin wrote: >> >> David Rosenstrauch wrote: >>> >>> The mirrorlist file that you see reference 3 times in the pacman.conf is >>> telling pacman which mirror to use. IIRC, by default the mirror list >>> points to the main arch site, but that site intentionally has bandwidth >>> limitations placed on it in order to encourage people's use of the >>> mirror sites. So edit the mirror list making a different mirror have >>> higher priority (i.e., appearing earlier in the file) and that should >>> solve the problem. >>> >>> For example, my mirrorlist file lists a load of mirrors, all commented >>> out. Then at the end of the file I added: >>> >>> Server = http://mirror.rit.edu/archlinux/$repo/os/x86_64 >>> Server = http://archlinux.unixheads.org/$repo/os/x86_64 >>> Server = http://mirrors.easynews.com/linux/archlinux/$repo/os/x86_64 >>> >>> HTH, >>> >>> DR >>> >> >> More than helps, that was exactly what I needed. > > > Cool. Glad you were able to get up and running quickly. > > >> All said, pacman isn't that >> much different than zypper on openSuSE, I just have to learn its nuances. >> (now >> if I could just learn to not automatically type a k in pacman, I'd have it >> made ;-) > > Why on earth would you ever have learned to spell pacman with a "k"?!?!?!? > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacman :-) > > DR >
