Dang.. I took too long to type this up, haha! Looks like you already solved it.
Good job. :P On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Andrew Przepioski <aprzepio...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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 >> > >
