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Private Internet Access VPN software won't install as it expects the "core" repo

Unfortunately the PIA GUI won’t install in Artix due to the repos being named differently than those of Arch . I get the following error:

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 [handy@notebang ~/data/downloads]$ ./pia-v78-installer-linux.sh
Installing files...
Installing dependencies...
Running: sudo pacman -Sy --noconfirm core/net-tools extra/gconf extra/libxss extra/xdg-utils
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 system is up to date
 world is up to date
 galaxy is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
 herecura is up to date
error: database not found: core
warning: gconf-3.2.6-5 is up to date -- reinstalling
warning: libxss-1.2.2-2 is up to date -- reinstalling
warning: xdg-utils-1.1.2-2 is up to date -- reinstalling
Package installation failed. Please make sure that your package manager is configured correctly and is still supported by your distribution vendor.

I manually installed the net-tools file (the only one missing) & retried, but it still fails as shown above. I guess I’ll email PIA support the error & perhaps they will modify their code to include the Artix layout too?

Re: Private Internet Access VPN software won't install as it expects the "core" repo

Reply #1 –
have you the below in your pacman.conf and to update is -Syy one y for local sync and the second one for global sync even if the first y says its up to date.
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[herecura]
Server = https://repo.herecura.be/$repo/$arch
 

Re: Private Internet Access VPN software won't install as it expects the "core" repo

Reply #2 –
@robin0800 Good call. I'm in Devuan at the mo' but tomorrow morning I'll boot into Artix & give that a shot, as that repo (which I use for Vivaldi) must have the net-tools that I need?

Re: Private Internet Access VPN software won't install as it expects the "core" repo

Reply #3 –
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$ pacman -Ss net-tools
system/net-tools 1.60.20180212git-1 [Installiert]
    Configuration tools for Linux networking

net-tools is in system repo.
More likely that install script expects arch core repo.

Re: Private Internet Access VPN software won't install as it expects the "core" repo

Reply #4 –
@artoo yes, of course, your right. I'd already said in the OP that I'd manually installed net-tools but the script still wouldn't work 'cause it needed the Arch core repo. (My memory ain't what it used to be...)