Try to change mirror and do pacman -Syy. 2012/2/16 Fons Adriaensen <fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:41:53PM +0100, Karol Blazewicz wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Fons Adriaensen <fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > > > Because it is apparently a dependency of octave. And pacman tried to > > > install it, but failed due to the 'no version information'. > > > > 'pacman -S foo' doesn't work that way. > > Could you elaborate a bit on that ? Isn't 'pacman -S foo' supposed > to either install (if not yet installed) or update any dependencies > of 'foo' ? That anyway is what apperently it has done for the last > three years I've been using it... > > I can perfectly understand that this will trigger an avalanche of > updates on a system that is mostly out of date, and that the result > can't be guaranteed in such cases and a full system update is in order. > > But that is not the case here. What happens is that one library fails > to install (also separately) as a result of 'no version information'. > > Ciao, > > -- > FA > > Vor uns liegt ein weites Tal, die Sonne scheint - ein Glitzerstrahl. > >
