On Wednesday 17 June 2009 19:08:27 Ed Jobs wrote: > On Thursday 18 June 2009 02:49, David C. Rankin wrote: > > DR, List > > > > > > I give up ;-( I'm pulling out the Nuclear option. I have uninstalled > > everything related to kde and kde-unstable still will not install. This > > has > > > to be some type of bug. I'll report back after I get my system > > installed > > > and running.... > > i think, (tho i haven't checked) that the problem is the "kde" group. it > pulls packages from extra too... > > as said earlier, i had the same issue on a fresh VM. i solved it with the > "nuclear" option, but now that i think of it, i didn't try abs. > > also, as someone suggested, pacman -S kde kde-extragear works if > you press "n" the second time it asks you for the group. (i tested the > latter and it has no problem at all) I'll test as well, I have yet a 3rd spare box with Arch running on it configured with kdemod3. So I can go through this same wonderful process all over again. (but on the bright side, I have kde-unstable packages for both x86_64 and i686 on the local server, so I could do this over-and-over again all night and not have to worry about a download;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
