Timeline for Cannot sync pkgs and refresh pkg databases with 'pacman' under Archlinux
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| Jun 17, 2022 at 20:41 | history | edited | Cbhihe | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 17, 2022 at 11:49 | comment | added | terdon♦ | Thanks, @sahil, that's much clearer! So, as others have said, your main issue is that you are not connected to the internet. Please follow the instructions here: wiki.archlinux.org/title/Network_configuration. Or, even better, instead of following random youtube videos, just follow the Arch installation guide: wiki.archlinux.org/title/Installation_guide. | |
| Jun 17, 2022 at 11:47 | history | edited | terdon♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 17, 2022 at 11:46 | comment | added | Nasir Riley |
In addition to the advice to add an actual DNS server, when you update Arch Linux or install a package, you always want to use pacman -Syu so that the repositories are syncronized. Not doing so can lead to repos that are unsynched with the system and can't be repaired.
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| Jun 17, 2022 at 11:43 | comment | added | telcoM |
Try configuring the system to use Google's public DNS resolver server: echo "nameserver 8.8.8.8" >>/etc/resolv.conf. If you have a network configuration management system (e.g. NetworkManager) installed, this setting may not persist over a reboot; in that case, put the nameserver IP address wherever the configuration management system wants it.
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| Jun 17, 2022 at 11:37 | comment | added | sahil | It returns nothing. @telcoM | |
| Jun 17, 2022 at 11:35 | comment | added | telcoM |
You're getting Could not resolve host errors for all hosts, suggesting you may have missing or incorrect DNS settings. Does grep nameserver /etc/resolv.conf return anything? If it returns nameserver 127.0.0.53, run resolvectl and see what it says.
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| Jun 17, 2022 at 11:29 | history | edited | sahil | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 17, 2022 at 11:29 | history | edited | sahil | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 17, 2022 at 11:23 | comment | added | sahil | Alright I will edit my question, and yes it was after a successful installation. | |
| Jun 17, 2022 at 11:14 | comment | added | terdon♦ |
Yes, please edit your question and add all this. Tell us what you were doing and at what point you got the error. I have no idea if it can be fixed because I still don't know when this happened. Was it part of the installation? Was it after successfully installing? What did you do to set up pacman? Just add al this to your question so we can understand. My first guess is that you have a bad URL in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist. Please also add the output of grep -vP '^\s*#' /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist | grep . to your question.
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| Jun 17, 2022 at 11:10 | comment | added | sahil | @terdon I was trying to install a gui for my system. I am no longer on the live boot. Everything up to this point seems to be working fine, I guess I messed up somewhere in that part of setting up Pacman. Is it possible to fix it or do I need to start over with the docs instead? | |
| Jun 17, 2022 at 11:05 | comment | added | terdon♦ | Please edit your question and tell us what you did. We are not going to watch a 37 minute youtube video! You need to tell us exactly what you did so we can understand the issue. More generally, Arch has some of the best documentation of the Linux world. Please use the official docs and not random youtube videos: wiki.archlinux.org | |
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| S Jun 17, 2022 at 11:03 | history | asked | sahil | CC BY-SA 4.0 |