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Nouveau Drivers - redirictor error ==> Failed Pkg Download

BobByte - about 1 year ago -

When attempting to install the Nouveau Drivers, after
completing the base Parabola installation, I get this error:

llvm-libs-15.0.7-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst failed to download

“Could not resolve host redirector.parabola.nu”

This was the case whether I tried an online or offline
manual install of the Nouveau Drivers Package

I found the general file info on the file in question
in the Parabola Packages listing, here

https://www.parabola.nu/packages/?sort=&arch=x86_64&q=llvm-libs

And the specific file info here:

https://www.parabola.nu/packages/extra/x86_64/llvm-libs/

Is this a “normal” dependency issue (as in I should
expect to manually install certain packages first)?

Should I install the llvm-libs package first,
then attempt the Nouveau drivers, or?

Thanks !


Replies (4)

Nouveau Drivers - redirictor error ==> Failed Pkg Download - bill-auger - about 1 year ago -

“Could not resolve host redirector.parabola.nu”

that was probably a temporary network failure

Is this a “normal” dependency issue (as in I should
expect to manually install certain packages first)?

it does not appear to be any sort of dependency issue - but you
did not give a very useful description - it is not obvious what
you did or were trying to do at the time

Should I install the llvm-libs package first,
then attempt the Nouveau drivers, or?

what are "the Nouveau drivers"? - is that a parabola package?

it is most helpful to show the exact commands that you typed,
and also the complete command output - the plain worded problem
description makes it very difficult to deduce anything; but the
commands and output speak for themselves clearly

RE: Nouveau Drivers - redirictor error ==> Failed Pkg Download - BobByte - about 1 year ago -

Hi,

Thank you for the quick reply

Apologies if my post was confusing - did the
image not attach - which showed the input and
output of what I was doing?

I am attempting to install the Nouveau open
source video drivers for Nvidea graphics cards
using the Parabola specific package

https://nouveau.freedesktop.org

I was beginning the Parabola-specific installation
as described here:

https://wiki.parabola.nu/Nouveau

The command I issued, as per the guide, was this:

  1. pacman ‐S xf86‐video‐nouveau

That resulted in a connection, a list of packages
that were required, a prompt to proceed, or not, and
the download size

Then the error message about the one package that
could not be downloaded

The screen capture is attached - sorry low res

The guide did not mention any dependencies, so I
was not sure if the guide was a bit dated, or there
was some issue with the re-direct

I tried this manually (by downloading the nouveau
package and installing that) and by attempting the
install from a web connection both with the same
outcome shown in the image in my original post

Those attempts were about an hour apart

Presently my system is CL only as I have not been
able to load the grpahics drivers (I am using a Coreboot
ROM image to boot the machine, so the graphics are
not initialized in the same way as a stock BIOS)

RE: Nouveau Drivers - redirictor error ==> Failed Pkg Download - BobByte - about 1 year ago -

Hello,

I did a bunch more work trying to sort this out:

I re-tried running the Nouveau install command

It is not a network issue - I can connect and
install other packages with no issues

I also ran a script in terminal to generate
the dependency file list the package produced
when I ran the install command

I searched those and found they all exist in an
Arch Repo - see attached summary image and the
text list at the bottom - all are in the Extra
Repo, except for one

The errors are produced by the install command:

pacman -S xf86-video-nouveau

Note: the above package is listed on the Parabola
Nouveau Drivers Page here:

https://wiki.parabola.nu/Nouveau

It would appear the package above has an older or
out of date reference to the dependencies - producing
the re-director error messages - is that how the
packages system works?

Is there any way to move forward with the
installation of the sub-packages, other than to
install them one at a time?

How would I know which to install first?

Or should I follow the Arch Nouveau install
procedure noted below, and ignore the Parabola
install procedure?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Nouveau

Or are there reasons the Arch packages are not
part of the parabola packages - say some non-free
material, or?

Any help would be appreciated!

The packages are listed below

default-cursors-2-1
libdrm-2.4.115-1
libedit-20221030_3.1-1
libglvnd-1.6.0-1
libomxil-bellagio-0.9.3-4
libpciaccess-0.17-1
libunwind-1.6.2-2
libx11-1.8.4-1
libxau-1.0.11-2
libxcb-1.15-2
libxdamage-1.1.6-1
libxdmcp-1.1.4-2
libxext-1.3.5-1
libxfixes-6.0.0-2
libxshmfence-1.3.2-1
libxxf86vm-1.1.5-1
llvm-libs-15.0.7-2
lm_sensors-1:3.6.0.r41.g31d1f125-2
mesa-22.3.6-1
vulkan-icd-loader-1.3.240-1
wayland-1.21.0-2
xcb-proto-1.15.2-2
xorgproto-2022.2-1
xf86-video-nouveau-1.0.17-2

RE: Nouveau Drivers - redirictor error ==> Failed Pkg Download - bill-auger - about 1 year ago -

pacman -S xf86-video-nouveau

i just installed that package, using that exact command

the mirrors in asia have not synced in the past few days - if
you try again, not once per hour, but repeatedly, it will
succeed eventually

but there is a better solution - as the note in the default
mirrorlist says, the best plan is to choose one mirror which is
physically near you, put that at the top of mirrorlist, and keep
the redirector entries below that - as long as you do not choose
one of the mirrors in asia today, i think you will not have this
same problem

the file to edit is /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

if you are using nonsystemd, the mirrorlist installed on
nonsystemd systems may be missing some mirrors - you can always
get the most up-to-date mirrorlist at this URL
https://repo.parabola.nu/mirrorlist.txt

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