On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 5:55 PM, richard terry <rterry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > couldn't retreive the gnu debugger from pacman -S gdb, and looking in the > extra repo it didn't seem to be present. > > any reason? https://dev.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/gdb/ It's in extra. Perhaps your mirror is broken?