Nick, In addition to what David and Chris suggested, you might try entering exactly that pacman command omitting the names of the packages, thus forcing your package archives to be updated. Then repeat the command with the package names added. I seem to recall that I had to do that at one point, in one of my installations. Chuck On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 09:06:13PM -0500, Nick G wrote: > Yes, the instalation was mounted on /mnt. The error was something > about package not found. > Anything you can suggest I do non-standard when I go back in on > Thursday? Chroot, for instance? > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Brannon" > <cmbrannon79 at gmail.com> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 8:36 PM > Subject: Re: Talking Arch instalation: alsa-utils doesn't install > > > >>but doing this threw an > >>error, which I can't remember, but something about a > >>non-existing alsa-utils > >>package. > > > >Yes, that command looks fine to me. > >The alsa-utils package is in the extra repository, and you shouldn't have > >had any trouble installing it. > >pacman should have pulled it from your chosen mirror with no complaint. > >Your installation was mounted on /mnt, right? > > > >I should really automate that part of the process, because that command > >is fairly complex. > > > >-- Chris > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- The Moon is Full My web site: www.hallenbeck.ftml.net Audio editor, weblog: edway.wordpress.com -------- Which is worse: ignorance or apathy? Who knows? Who cares?
