Problem installing xorg on Arch

[geekthattweaks]

Hello all.

I have recently endevored to improve my understaning of linux. Thus the install of Arch. At the moment I am trying to get X to work. Pacman keeps saying policykit is corrupted. After a search of the Arch site I came across this thread.http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=76758 After following the advice in the thread I am still having problems. Any thoughts you might have would be greatly appreciated.

[JohnT]

What version of Arch and where did you download from? Possibly you have to tried to reinstall?

[retsaw]

Try downloading it again from here ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/extra/os/i686/policykit-0.9-9-i686.pkg.tar.gz and installing it manually with "pacman -U policykit-0.9-9-i686.pkg.tar.gz".

[dr_te_z]

Afraid to ask, but did you follow this? http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners_Guide
Works for me all the time

[geekthattweaks]

JohnT

I got the iso off a Linux Format disc. When I get home I will post the version.


retsaw

How do I specify where to download it from? I have tried to install it seperately.


dr te z

No problems. Yes I was following that guide I was also using this one.http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg

[retsaw]

I mean that you should download it from there using your web-browser (or wget). I was thinking that perhaps your mirror has a corrupted version, and since the ftp.archlinux.org is the main repository the version there should be okay.