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

[Tony Morehen]

I use Add/Remove most of the time.  pamac (the actual program name) has 
several advantages,  It can install and update packages from the AUR and 
has a system tray utility that notifies when updates are available.

Sometimes, though, it misses the latest updates, ie it's background 
update of what's available on the mirrors has not run yet.  Then I run a 
pacman -Syyu to force an update.

I've been running Manjaro for the past 3 years.  Before that I ran 
opensuse for more than a decade.  Yes, Manjaro has much more frequent 
updates but they rarely break anything unlike suse's. And Manjaro is 
much faster.

On 2019-06-18 11:41 a.m., Cedron Dawg wrote:
> Thanks again.  There's always a learning curve, isn't there?
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> At this point, I'll go as far as agreeing that doing the updates "ought" to get me to the same place so it is worth trying.  I sure hope it works.
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> I did find the mirror stuff while researching the GLIB29 problem this morning.
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> Do you advise against using the Add/Remove Software GUI vs the command line approach?
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "tmorehen" <tmorehen at ajm-software.com>
> To: "user" <user at lists.gambas-basic.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2019 12:07:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [Gambas-user] My incomplete Manjaro Install - Need expert help
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> Cedron, those dependency warnings occur all the time, just ignore them. They just mean that pacman is reordering its install list to take into account dependencies.
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> Don't bother downloading 18.04, it likely will need updates anyway. Just update your current install. You'll wind up in the same place but the total download will be smaller.
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> Manjaro is a rolling installation so its iso's are always out of date. You should do an update after a fresh install
> On 2019-06-18 10:17 a.m., Tony Morehen wrote:
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> 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
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> I'd recommend updating your system before installing Gambas.
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> Step 1(optional): Reset your mirrorlist so that the fastest download servers come first in the list.
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> sudo pacman-mirrors
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> This gives you a mirrorlist containing all manjaro mirrors, ordered by speed. You can limit that list to specific countries or region.
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> pacman-mirrors --country-list
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> sudo pacman-mirrors --country Germany,France,Austria
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> Step 2: Run a system update.
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> sudo pacman -Syyu
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> If you skipped updating your mirrorlist, you can use:
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> sudo pacman -Syu
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> Step 3: Install Gambas
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> sudo pacman -S gambas3
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> Hope this helps.