[arch-general] unable to install anything via yaourt

[Loui Chang]

On Sun 02 Jan 2011 08:12 +0530, Madhurya Kakati wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Loui Chang <louipc.ist at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun 02 Jan 2011 08:00 +0530, Madhurya Kakati wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 7:53 AM, jesse jaara <jesse.jaara at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Does xz work alone?
> > > > On 2.1.2011 4.21, "Madhurya Kakati" <mkakati2805 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > i ran pacman -Syu and system is fully updated.
> > > > >
> > > > > On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 7:42 AM, jesse jaara <jesse.jaara at gmail.com>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >> Your pacman or libarchive is outofdate or you dont have xz installed
> > >
> > > when i run the command xz in terminal it prints out the same error.
> >
> > Best to ask the yaourt folks directly via their channels.
> > http://archlinux.fr/yaourt-en
> >
> > no. its not a problem of yaourt anymore guys. I have realized that I
> > can't install anything from aur.

If you're having problems using yaourt to try to install from
[unsupported], or any repo, then you're probably having a problem with
yaourt, not the repos.

The AUR itself seems to be operating generally fine right now.
So, best to ask the yaourt folks for some advice, since they know that
program the best.