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Pacman is a simple library-based package manager used in some Linux distributions, e.g. Arch Linux.

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Why doesn't my gcc compiler recognize the bzip2 functions, yet allows me to include the library they belong to?

I'm writing a file parser in C using gcc on Windows using MSYS2. Using pacman I've downloaded the required libraries for using libbzip2. For some reason, I can include the bzlib.h file and use the structures it contains, but not its…
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Why can I install MingW packages in MSYS2 if I can't use them?

I don't understand the point behind this. I have an MSYS2 installation. I use pacman -Ss to search for packages. There's mingw32/, mingw64/, and msys/ packages for each thing. Apparently I want the msys packages, because that's what I'm running,…
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Getting dependencies error while installing R packages in Ubuntu Using pacman

I am using pacman to install and load the mentioned libraries. But it is throwing a dependency error and lock error in installing caret. My main motive to use this library was to auto detect the libraries in R so that if present, load the library…
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How to fix "Error: failed to commit transactions, snapd: /snap exists in filesystem, no packages were upgraded."?

I'm getting problem in upgrading the manjaro packages. How should I fix this? sudo pacman -Syu error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) snapd: /snap exists in filesystem Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
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Installing cminpack package in Msys2

I have Portable Msys2. I mean to install cminpack. As I understand, https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mingw-w64-cminpack/ means such package is available. I expected then that the package shows up in the list of available packages, but $ pacman -Ss…
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How do I install libpng on MSYS2?

I want to build a program with mingw w64 and I have msys2 installed. I tried to work with pacman from the msys2 prompt. $ pacman -Q libpng error: package 'libpng' was not found $ pacman -S libpng error: target not found: libpng $ pacman -S…
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Install old Python 3.6 using MSYS2

I need to recompile a library using python 3.6 instead of python 3.7. Problem is MSYS2 repository doesn't have but 3.7 version. I hope someone could show me how to install older Python 3.6 using pacman.
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Synchronizing package databases

I wrote Dockerfile: FROM base/archlinux RUN pacman -Syu When Docker runs second step: RUN -Syu I see something like this: ::Synchronizing package databases... error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from mirror.leaseweb.net : Resolving timed out…
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How to say pacman that package is already updated?

For example I have Intellij Idea installed on my Arch Linux system. Intellij Idea has built in updater and assume that I's already updated Intellij Idea with that built in Intellij Idea updater. But when I perform "yaourt -Syu" corresponding…
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Bash can't find makepkg on server

I'm currently running into an issue where I am not able to use makepkg on my server. I've verified that pacman is installed correctly so I'm assuming this has to have something to do with my environment PATH? Trying to run makepkg from my bash…
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ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'tensorflow.contrib.tensorboard'

I installed tensorflow on my arch linux computer via pacman. I tried to run the official example code for the mnist problem, but I get this error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "mnist_example.py", line 27, in from…
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ImportError for `python-six` package on Arch Linux

>pip Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/pip", line 6, in from pkg_resources import load_entry_point File…
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How can Devhelp be installed on Windows, with GTK+ stable documentation?

I searched with Google for Windows binaries of Devhelp but I did not find something useful. I use MSYS2 and in the MSYS2 MinGW 32-bit terminal I executed pacman -Q devhelp and pacman -S devhelp, but the package could not be found.
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Pacman: How to choose default choice when it asks to replace a package?

I'm working with docker and I try to make a Dockerfile including some pacman upgrade/installation. But at some point of the upgrading process, pacman asks if I want to replace some package with an other. But in the case of a Dockerfile, an error…
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notify-send doesn't work in crontab (doesn't send a notification)

I want to make a little script which send me a notification when an update is available for pacman. I did that : #!/bin/sh while /usr/bin/inotifywait -e create /var/lib/pacman; do /usr/bin/notify-send "pacmauto" "Updating..."; updateDone=0 while…
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