Install script fails due to package mirror 404 error and lacks dependency error handling

[death366]

System details

AMD 70700X Nvidia RTX 4060 gaming oc

What's wrong?

While running the Omarchy OS installation/setup script, the process fails. The initial system upgrade attempts to download packages (including perl and git), but encounters a 404 Not Found error from stable-mirror.omarchy.org for the perl package.

Because the pacman transaction fails, git is never installed. However, the script does not catch this transaction failure and continues execution. It immediately attempts to clone the Omarchy repository, which throws a git: command not found error, followed by subsequent cd and execution errors since the repository was never cloned.

the log:
:: Retrieving packages...
perl-5.42.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst failed to download
error: failed retrieving file 'perl-5.42.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst' from stable-mirror.omarchy.org : The requested URL returned error: 404
warning: failed to retrieve some files
error: failed to commit transaction (failed to retrieve some files)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

Cloning Omarchy from: https://github.com/basecamp/omarchy.git
bash: line 42: git: command not found
Using branch: master
bash: line 45: cd: /home/death/.local/share/omarchy: No such file or directory
bash: line 46: git: command not found
bash: line 47: cd: OLDPWD not set

Installation starting...
bash: line 58: /home/death/.local/share/omarchy/install.sh: No such file or directory

[death366]

I also attempted to manually download and install the package via pacman -S perl outside of the script, but encountered the exact same 404 error. This indicates that the package is either missing or out of sync on the Omarchy mirror server.

[Curlydude10]

I am getting a 404 error trying to install the ghostty package on a system already running omarchy it seems like there is an issue with the mirror server currently

[subhadeep-sengupta]

I am having the same issue. First I was trying to install ghostty, did not work, then tried to install redis, also did not work, same error of the mirror server

[holdal]

had the same problem
i edited
sudo nano /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
added:
Server = https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/$repo/os/$arch

[subhadeep-sengupta]

did it work @holdal ?

[holdal]

yes, it worked here 👍

[Curlydude10]

I used a different mirror from the this list but it also worked
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Mirrors

[alebahn]

For me, the script kept forcing the mirror list back, so I couldn't add a different mirror. I think the problem is that I had the available version cached from when the mirror list was a wider set, and pacman was trying to install the version it remembered was available, but was no longer available due to the time-delayed nature of the omarchy stable mirror. I fixed this by running pacman -Syy to clear the cache. Then I could run the install script just fine.

[brent-holland]

I just got bit by this on a fresh install of arch on a vm. curl'd down the install script, tried to run it, got a 404 on perl. Well, alright, tried to install it with pacman and noted that my repos were switched to omarchy's repos, and it 404'd again. Trieid to add back the arch mirror, and finally managed to echo it into the mirrorlist, only to get a 302. Apparently the installer also altered other network stuff, because I got a 302, even curling google.

TLDR: The installer can leave an install in a completely broken state if it fails for whatever reason. When running on an existing arch install, it should back up the files it touches and try to restore them if it fails. At the very least, if I'd had backups, restoring things back to a workable state would have been a simple cp instead of having to faf about with echo!