Pacman is a simple library-based package manager used in some Linux distributions, e.g. Arch Linux.
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pip 2 & 3 Syntax change
I use an arch-linux system and just installed pip via yaourt.
yaurt -S pip
Then I tried to install something via pip for python 3. But I get an error like this:
pip install requests
install: missing destination file operand after ‘requests’
Try…

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How to interpret user input as a variable name?
This one is kind of hard to explain. Consider variables all, first, last, and some:
a="apple mcintosh"
b="banana plantain"
c="coconut cashew"
all="$a $b $c"
first="$a"
last=$c"
some="$a $c"
Here is what I have:
echo "What do you want to…

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Unable to download package in msys2 - fail to connect to mirror, server
$ pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
clangarm64.db failed to download
mingw32.db failed to download
mingw64.db failed to download
ucrt64.db failed to download
clang32.db failed to download
error: failed retrieving file…

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How to install mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake at Ubuntu
Per this URL, https://packages.msys2.org/package/mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake, I use the command as follows to install mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake. It complains Unable to locate package mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake
sudo pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake
Reading…

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How to resolve the gstreamer dependencies in arch linux
Today I tried to install wine to be able to install roblox for my child, the problem is that after I unchecked multilib from /etc/pacman.conf , I keep getting the following
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
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Postgresql is not being found within my vala project
So I have a project but it is using Vala, it has been so hard finding much within the community but making it through. I have this one project, may be simple but I am find it to be dragging for a long time now.
How do I connect to Postgresql?
I ran…

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Gem::Ext::BuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension - rbnacl-libsodium 1.0.16
I was trying bundle install and my gem file has gem 'rbnacl-libsodium' it took some time for installation and got failed.
Using rbnacl 4.0.2
Fetching rbnacl-libsodium 1.0.16
Installing rbnacl-libsodium 1.0.16 with native…

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Flutter : /opt/..../FETCH_HEAD exists in filesystem Arch
While I'm updating and installing some packages on Arch Linux:
sudo pacman -Syu && sudo pacman -S --needed \
webkit2gtk \
base-devel \
curl \
wget \...
I got following error:
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
flutter:…

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How can I properly configure the g++ include path with mingw64?
I have installed msys2/mingw64 because I need the g++ compiler. Now, I want to compile some c++ oce which requires openblas. I have installed the package using pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-openblas. However, compiling the code fails with
fatal error:…

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Where are pacman package databases downloaded from?
When updating your system on archlinux with pacman -Suy, pacman gets package databases from somewhere and then downloads packages from mirrors according to versions specified in these databases.
I know these databases are in /var/lib/pacman/sync/.…

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How to handle additional files when building and running a AUR package?
So I was just playing around and created this simple Shell script:
TestScript.sh
#!/bin/bash
read -p "read or write? " INP
if [[ "${INP}" == "write" ]]
then
read -p "Write your text: " TEXT
touch /usr/share/textfile.txt
echo "${TEXT}"…

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ERROR: opus not found using pkg-config in msys64 on Windows
I'm trying to build ffmpeg.
I downloaded msys2 x64 from the official website. This is the latest version.
Executed "pacman-Syu", rebooted msys and executed "pacman-Su".
In your file build_ffmpeg_win.sh ffmpeg installs the following packages using…

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bash: /usr/bin/autoreconf: /usr/bin/perl: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
I am trying to compile some software in Windows using MSYS2 mingw64.exe terminal.
On running the autoreconf -i command, I get the error:
-bash: /usr/bin/autoreconf: /usr/bin/perl: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
ls /usr/bin/ doesn't show…

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What does "readelf error: LEB value too large" mean?
What exactly does mean this error and what can cause it?
readelf: Error: LEB value too large
What LEB stands for? Lower(st) estimated bound(ary)?
I have seen it many times, in particular when building Archlinux packages.

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What's the difference between Python built by MSC and Python built by GCC?
I'm a Windows user. I used to install the official CPython from python.org. But recently I tried the mingw-w64-x86_64-python offered by MSYS2.
The two interpreters show different banners at launch:
python.org: Python 3.8.3 (tags/v3.8.3:6f8c832, May…

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