[Gambas-user] My incomplete Manjaro Install - Need expert help

[Tony Morehen]

There is no problem here.  When you asked pacman to install gambas, it 
found that your install needed to be updated and so started to do a full 
system update.  System updates occur about once a month and are 
generally ~300mb in download size.  However, a recent update exceeded 
1gb, so I'm not surprised that your system needed a 1.2gb download.  
BTW, there a often smaller updates between system updates, usually for 
individual packages like Firefox, Chromium, Thunderbird etc

I'd recommend updating your system before installing Gambas.

Step 1(optional):  Reset your mirrorlist so that the fastest download 
servers come first in the list.

sudo pacman-mirrors

This gives you a mirrorlist containing all manjaro mirrors, ordered by 
speed.  You can limit that list to specific countries or region.

pacman-mirrors --country-list

sudo pacman-mirrors --country Germany,France,Austria

Step 2:  Run a system update.

sudo pacman -Syyu

If you skipped updating your mirrorlist, you can use:

sudo pacman -Syu

Step 3: Install Gambas

sudo pacman -S gambas3

Hope this helps.

On 2019-06-18 9:30 a.m., Peter Wiehe wrote:
> Sorry, can't help much. Except this: Ask in the Manjaro forum, 
> perhaps? Maybe there are experts for this Manjaro problem?
> (My Manjaro and Gambas works fine.)
> If that fails, Linux Mint is not bad, too.
>
> Kind regards
> Peter Wiehe
>
> Cedron Dawg <cedron at exede.net <mailto:cedron at exede.net>> schrieb am 
> Di., 18. Juni 2019 15:51:
>
>     My Manjaro install went smoothly until it didn't.  Took longer
>     than expected too.
>
>     First, perhaps a bad sign, the download server was down for
>     maintenance, so I waited a bit.  (After midnight I can download
>     without data metering.)  It came back, so I downloaded the iso. 
>     Took a while, I'm on satellite internet. Copy iso to usb drive,
>     then to locol server.  My old trusty iso installer failed with the
>     newer Manjaro.  Found an alternative one, USB ready.
>
>     Booted from USB.  Worked fine, played around, went for install. 
>     Went smoothly.  Reboot from install.  Worked fine. Did some
>     settings.  Looked at some photos to set the background.  Used the
>     "Set as background" option on the image viewer, nothing.  There's
>     a glitch, another bad sign?
>
>     So, I set the background with the settings and do a web search. 
>     Yep, that option doesn't work in Manjaro.  Not a big deal.
>
>     Install Gambas by going to command line and "sudo pacman -S
>     gambas3" per the wiki:
>
>     http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/install/archlinux
>
>     A bunch of stuff scrolls by.  I start Gambas, it works, I close
>     it.  I go to copy some files from my other partition to work
>     with.  Try to start Gambas, nothing.  Try to unintall, reinstall,
>     some other stuff, don't remember it was really late.  Go to bed.
>
>     This morning, lacking some sleep, I try again.  Still doesn't
>     work.  Go to the command line:
>
>     gambas3.gambas
>
>     Get a message something like GLIBC29.0 is required by gbx ....
>
>     Okay, research the issue.  Pretty common, but none of the fixes
>     work.  Okay, fresh image, yet not up to date?  Another bad sign?
>
>     Fine, at this point I am ready to give up on Manjaro and try Mint
>     Xcfe.  This means another large download, so I'll have to wait
>     till tonight.  In the meanwhile, I do a fresh re-install of Manjaro.
>
>     This time I try to install Gambas using the Add/Remove Packages
>     option.
>
>     I find it (Gambas3-IDE), mark for installation, and get a pop up
>     that says this:
>
>     Warning: dependency cycle detected:
>     Warning: bashrc-manjaro will be installed before its bash dependency
>     Warning: dependency cycle detected:
>     Warning: harfbuzz will be installed before its freetype2 dependency
>     Warning: dependency cycle detected:
>     Warning: libglvnd will be installed before its mesa dependency
>     Warning: dependency cycle detected:
>     Warning: x264 will be installed before its ffmpeg dependency
>     Warning: dependency cycle detected:
>     Warning: usbmuxd will be installed before its libimobiledevice
>     dependency
>     Warning: dependency cycle detected:
>     Warning: lib32-harfbuzz will be installed before its
>     lib32-freetype2 dependency
>     Warning: dependency cycle detected:
>     Warning: lib32-keyutils will be installed before its lib32-krb5
>     dependency
>     Warning: dependency cycle detected:
>     Warning: lib32-libglvnd will be installed before its lib32-mesa
>     dependency
>
>     Okay, hit the [close], then press [Apply] anyway.  It comes up
>     with a list of packages to remove, and those to install, and the
>     download will be 1.2G.
>
>     That doesn't make sense.  So, I cancel, and here I sit.
>
>     Any ArchLinux/Manjaro users out there that can tell me what to do
>     next?
>
>     Yes, the Mint Xcfe option is still on the table.
>
>     Ced
>
>
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