Dang, archlinux.org is not loading for me. It must be down... because there is actually a sticky on this that has to do with klibc. Anyhow, the sticky pretty much said that you could delete all of those.. Of course, instead of deleting, I recommend moving it to another directory or renaming it. If pacman successfully works and everything is fully functional still such as being able to boot, then I would remove it.
Since youre new, I would recommend looking at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/articles/lpi-101-fundamentals-p1.xml to learn a bit more about rm, specifically with rm -fr and the wildcard (*) so you can do this task with ease. Let us know how it goes. :) On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Preston C. <gprest...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am following the Beginner's Guide to try and get AL installed, and > have come across a problem. I made it to the part about updating the > system, before the installation of ALSA and X. > > Here is the problem: > > Two nights ago I ran pacman -Syu . For some reason it did not install > properly, possibly because I did not have the network setup right at > the time, because of an update to pacman. Nevertheless, I finally got > around to trying again tonight, and the update this time was not 100+ > MB it was 27 MB. I imagine this is because Arch Linux saved the > updates downloaded the other night. > > Now tonight, when I ran the command pacman -Syu, after downloading 27 > MB of updates, pacman was in the process of installing them and then, > at the very beginning, pretty much on every package downloaded, it > said that the files "exists in filesystem". > > Any help on fixing the exists in filesystem problem on pretty much > every package, I think, would be very helpful. > > Thanks, > Preston >
