How to run Pacman on ArchPup?

[steve_s]

I began playing with Archpup 13.2.2 on my multiboot flash and it looks fun, but I can't get pacman up and running.

I don't know how.

Unfortunately all the posts I've seen everyone has been using Arch or Archpup for ever and knows pacman backwards and forwards.

I've used Puppy for a long time and I've done some Gentoo and Ubuntu, but never used pacman, so can't figure out how to get it up and running.

I checked out the wiki on pacman but it doesn't really tell you what to do to get running, and I know Puppy has it's own skew so I'm sure there are specifics about getting ArchPup pacman going, I just don't know it.

Would someone post a link or give me a quick run down?

I did run:

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pacman -Syu

but that gave me

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warning: database file for 'core' does not exist
warning: database file for 'extra' does not exist
warning: database file for 'community' does not exist

and a host of other warnings.

I assume I need to update some repository lists or something?

Can someone help this ArchPup noob out?

[ally]

archpup was removed for sourceforge by the developer, I did copy as much as I could and placed it on the archive, sadly I was unable to get any info

feel free to try the following:

http://archive.org/details/Puppy_Linux_ ... repository

[Ted Dog]

Howdy fellow Texan, stay dry Tropical Storm Bill is heading your way had a brief feeder band hit us heavy rain for 5 minutes and ended as quicky as it started. Actually looks nice around here super green everything, puffy clouds and dark blue skys. A Billion percent humidity

oh enought about our wonderful weather....

Were does people get the ROM images for those.

[steve_s]

Howdy fellow Texan, stay dry Tropical Storm Bill is heading your way had a brief feeder band hit us heavy rain for 5 minutes and ended as quicky as it started. Actually looks nice around here super green everything, puffy clouds and dark blue skys. A Billion percent humidity

oh enought about our wonderful weather....

Were does people get the ROM images for those.

Yep, we're in a lull right now, but it's supposed to be brutal tonight.

I found ArchPup 13.2.2 at this site. Hope that is what you were asking about.

**Edit: oh, that looks like what ally was saying. But I'm not looking for the iso, I've got that.

My question is about setting up pacman. Anyone have ideas on that?

[bigpup]

Maybe this will help you.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=136596

[Ted Dog]

Sorry I was thinking PacMan the video game and Arch was arcade pup.. my bad..

[ally]

the reason pacman is not working is that the arch repository closed

I mirrored what I could

[steve_s]

Yeah, but one should be able to install other Arch packages, right? Hence the formatting of ArchPup, yeah?

Anyway, I've tried a few things so far, specifically adding the core.db, exrta.db, testing.db and community.db to /var/lib/pacmna/sync.

I then added a few mirrors:

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# WARNING! Do not edit this file if you want stable system!
# Server = http://arm.konnichi.com/2013/02/01/$repo/os/$arch
Server = http://il.mirrors.linaxe.net/archlinux/core/os/i686/
Server = http://il.mirrors.linaxe.net/archlinux/community/os/i686/
Server = http://il.mirrors.linaxe.net/archlinux/extra/os/i686/
Server = http://il.mirrors.linaxe.net/archlinux/testing/os/i686/
Server = http://mirror.clarkson.edu/archlinux/core/os/i686/
Server = http://mirror.clarkson.edu/archlinux/community/os/i686/
Server = http://mirror.clarkson.edu/archlinux/extra/os/i686/
Server = http://mirror.clarkson.edu/archlinux/testing/os/i686/
Server = http://mirror.pointysoftware.net/archlinux/core/os/i686/
Server = http://mirror.pointysoftware.net/archlinux/community/os/i686/
Server = http://mirror.pointysoftware.net/archlinux/extra/os/i686/
Server = http://mirror.pointysoftware.net/archlinux/testing/os/i686/
Server = ftp://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/archlinux/core/os/i686/
Server = ftp://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/archlinux/testing/os/i686/
Server = ftp://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/archlinux/community/os/i686/
Server = ftp://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/archlinux/extra/os/i686/

then running pacman -Syy and pacman -Syu and then running pacman -S abiword to try and install something, but it flashes a bunch of stuff then says it couldn't upgrade any packages and nothing gets installed.

Oh, I backed up my save file first, but nothing has borked so far...

Just updating everyone...

...and feedback is welcome...

[Mayou]

Just taking a glance at the forum. First steps with Archpup (installed two hours ago.)

[Pelo]

çà se casse les dents, à ce que je vois. Everybody failed to get Pacman doing the job ?
[root@archpup ~]#
[root@archpup ~]# pacman -Syu
warning: database file for 'core' does not exist
warning: database file for 'extra' does not exist
warning: database file for 'community' does not exist
:: Synchronizing package databases...
error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from arm.konnichi.com : Could not resolve host: arm.konnichi.com; Name or service not known
error: failed to update core (download library error)
error: failed retrieving file 'extra.db' from arm.konnichi.com : Could not resolve host: arm.konnichi.com; Name or service not known
error: failed to update extra (download library error)
error: failed retrieving file 'community.db' from arm.konnichi.com : Could not resolve host: arm.konnichi.com; Name or service not known
error: failed to update community (download library error)
error: failed to synchronize any databases
error: failed to init transaction (download library error)
[root@archpup ~]#