alis-packages.conf executing Pacman -Syi instead of installing packages

[jaysonwcs]

Tried installing packages today with the script, and it's only displaying the packages information:

Here is my alis-packages.conf:

# Arch Linux Install Script (alis) configuration file
#
# Some variables values are preceded by a ! character, this means that the value is ignored.
# Some variables accept a single value others accept multiple values as annotated in the comments.
# Some variables are boolean with a value of true or false.
#
# Read the Arch Linux wiki pages to learn more about the variables values.
# https://github.com/picodotdev/alis/blob/master/README.md

# init
## LOG_TRACE outputs the comands executed.
## LOG_FILE generates a log file with the commands executed and output generated during installation.
### The log file is saved to /var/log/alis-packages.log.
LOG_TRACE="true"
LOG_FILE="false"

# pacman
## Arch Linux packages to install
## more at https://www.archlinux.org/packages/
## PACKAGES_PACMAN_CUSTOM_REPOSITORIES custom repositories to add to pacman configuration, see https://archlinux.org/pacman/pacman.conf.5.html#_repository_sections
### Comment lines starting with # charater are removed
PACKAGES_PACMAN_INSTALL="true"
PACKAGES_PACMAN_INSTALL_PIPEWIRE="true"
PACKAGES_PACMAN_INTERNET="!firefox !chromium !curl wget !filezilla sshfs !openssh !transmission-gtk !transmission-qt !liferea !gnome-boxes !gnome-tweaks"
PACKAGES_PACMAN_MULTIMEDIA="!gthumb !gimp !imagemagick !krita !inkscape !blender !cmus !vlc !easytag !ardour !audacity !ffmpeg !gnome-phone-manager !kdeconnect !gstreamer !gst-plugins-good !gst-plugins-bad !gst-plugins-ugly !bluez !bluez-utils"
PACKAGES_PACMAN_UTILITIES="!bash-completion !chezmoi gnome-initial-setup gnome-extra !code !lz4 !meld dosfstools ntfs-3g !exfat-utils man-db man-pages"
PACKAGES_PACMAN_DOCUMENTS_AND_TEXT="!libreoffice-fresh !calligra !discount !lyx !vim !calibre"
PACKAGES_PACMAN_COMMUNICATION="!geary !thunderbird !empathy !kopete !polari !konversation"
PACKAGES_PACMAN_GAMES=""
PACKAGES_PACMAN_SECURITY="!ufw rsync !gnupg !keepassxc !encfs"
PACKAGES_PACMAN_SCIENCE="!geogebra !octave"
PACKAGES_PACMAN_OTHERS="!klavaro tmux"
PACKAGES_PACMAN_DEVELOPER="git !python !dotnet-sdk !php !rust !go !virtualbox !docker !ansible !vagrant !packer !terraform !vault !consul !nomad"
PACKAGES_PACMAN_CUSTOM="gdu htop arch-install-scripts asciiquarium cowsay flatpak glances glow grub-btrfs kitty lolcat mlocate nemo sl snapper tldr tree"
PACKAGES_PACMAN_PIPEWIRE="pipewire pipewire-pulse pipewire-alsa wireplumber !pipewire-jack !helvum xdg-desktop-portal xdg-desktop-portal-gnome !xdg-desktop-portal-kde !xdg-desktop-portal-wlr"
PACKAGES_PACMAN_CUSTOM_REPOSITORIES="
#[custom]
#SigLevel = Optional TrustAll
#Server = file:///home/custompkgs
"

## Flatpak packages to install
## more at https://flathub.org/apps/collection/popular
PACKAGES_FLATPAK_INSTALL="true"
PACKAGES_FLATPAK_INTERNET="org.mozilla.firefox"
PACKAGES_FLATPAK_MULTIMEDIA="!com.spotify.Client !org.ardour.Ardour !org.audacityteam.Audacity !tv.kodi.Kodi !org.pitivi.Pitivi"
PACKAGES_FLATPAK_UTILITIES="!org.freefilesync.FreeFileSync !org.gnome.World.PikaBackup !com.dropbox.Client"
PACKAGES_FLATPAK_DOCUMENTS_AND_TEXT="!org.onlyoffice.desktopeditors !com.wps.Office"
PACKAGES_FLATPAK_COMMUNICATION="!com.slack.Slack !com.microsoft.Teams !org.jitsi.jitsi-meet !us.zoom.Zoom !org.telegram.desktop"
PACKAGES_FLATPAK_GAMES="!com.valvesoftware.Steam !org.wesnoth.Wesnoth !com.albiononline.AlbionOnline !org.hedgewars.Hedgewars !com.mojang.Minecraft !net.supertuxkart.SuperTuxKart !org.openttd.OpenTTD"
PACKAGES_FLATPAK_SECURITY=""
PACKAGES_FLATPAK_SCIENCE=""
PACKAGES_FLATPAK_OTHERS="!org.gnucash.GnuCash"
PACKAGES_FLATPAK_DEVELOPER="!com.jetbrains.IntelliJ-IDEA-Community !org.eclipse.Java !com.getpostman.Postman"
PACKAGES_FLATPAK_CUSTOM=""

## SDKMAN packages to install
## more at https://sdkman.io/jdks and https://sdkman.io/sdks
PACKAGES_SDKMAN_INSTALL="false"
PACKAGES_SDKMAN_JDKS="!java !java:17.0.1-tem !java:11.0.13-tem !java:8.0.312-tem" # format <candidate>:[version]:[local-path]
PACKAGES_SDKMAN_SDKS="!gradle !maven !kotlin !groovy" # format <candidate>:[version]:[local-path]

## AUR utility and AUR packages to install
## more at https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/
PACKAGES_AUR_INSTALL="true"
PACKAGES_AUR_COMMAND="paru-bin !yay-bin !paru !yay !aurman"
PACKAGES_AUR_INTERNET=""
PACKAGES_AUR_MULTIMEDIA=""
PACKAGES_AUR_UTILITIES=""
PACKAGES_AUR_DOCUMENTS_AND_TEXT=""
PACKAGES_AUR_COMMUNICATION=""
PACKAGES_AUR_GAMES=""
PACKAGES_AUR_SECURITY="flatseal"
PACKAGES_AUR_SCIENCE=""
PACKAGES_AUR_OTHERS="fortune-mod neo-matrix"
PACKAGES_AUR_DEVELOPER="sublime-text-4"
PACKAGES_AUR_CUSTOM=""

PACKAGES_PACMAN="$PACKAGES_PACMAN_INTERNET $PACKAGES_PACMAN_MULTIMEDIA $PACKAGES_PACMAN_UTILITIES $PACKAGES_PACMAN_DOCUMENTS_AND_TEXT $PACKAGES_PACMAN_COMMUNICATION $PACKAGES_PACMAN_GAMES $PACKAGES_PACMAN_SECURITY $PACKAGES_PACMAN_SCIENCE $PACKAGES_PACMAN_OTHERS $PACKAGES_PACMAN_DEVELOPER $PACKAGES_PACMAN_CUSTOM"
PACKAGES_FLATPAK="$PACKAGES_FLATPAK_INTERNET $PACKAGES_FLATPAK_MULTIMEDIA $PACKAGES_FLATPAK_UTILITIES $PACKAGES_FLATPAK_DOCUMENTS_AND_TEXT $PACKAGES_FLATPAK_COMMUNICATION $PACKAGES_FLATPAK_GAMES $PACKAGES_FLATPAK_SECURITY $PACKAGES_FLATPAK_SCIENCE $PACKAGES_FLATPAK_OTHERS $PACKAGES_FLATPAK_DEVELOPER $PACKAGES_FLATPAK_CUSTOM"
PACKAGES_SDKMAN="$PACKAGES_SDKMAN_JDKS $PACKAGES_SDKMAN_SDKS"
PACKAGES_AUR="$PACKAGES_AUR_INTERNET $PACKAGES_AUR_MULTIMEDIA $PACKAGES_AUR_UTILITIES $PACKAGES_AUR_DOCUMENTS_AND_TEXT $PACKAGES_AUR_COMMUNICATION $PACKAGES_AUR_GAMES $PACKAGES_AUR_SECURITY $PACKAGES_AUR_SCIENCE $PACKAGES_AUR_OTHERS $PACKAGES_AUR_DEVELOPER $PACKAGES_AUR_CUSTOM"

# systemd
## SYSTEMD_UNITS systemd units to enable or disable.
### If preceded with a "+" unit is enabled, if preceded with "-" unit is disabled, if preceded with "!" unit is ignored (no action is performed).
### eg. "+ufw.service" to enable, "-ufw.service" to disable, "!ufw.service" to ignore
SYSTEMD_UNITS="!ufw.service !bluetooth.service !docker.service"

[picodotdev]

That is the checks function/step output, the checks function checks the packages to install are valid and exists, the packages are installed later on packages function.

After the scripts ends, are the packages installed? is the packages function/step executed?

[jaysonwcs]

The script ends. I'm believe the packages were not installed, because it was executed in an instant.
I'll check again just to be sure.

[jaysonwcs]

Tested again: the packages were not installed. =(

[jaysonwcs]

Also: the packages step were not executed. Noticed this now.

[picodotdev]

Any error message in logs when scripts ends? or after checks step? are you executing alis.sh or alis-packages.sh?

In your screenshoot log sems you are executing alis-packges.sh, but I see your user jayson and in other traces picodotdev.

can you provide the full log?

[jaysonwcs]

May I send the asciinema file? I don't know where the log is saved.

alis-packages.asciinema.log

[jaysonwcs]

I re executed the packages installation and got an error on gnome-extra package. It was saying the package does not exists, but if I try to install it manually, it is found by pacman, but it is not an actual package.
The log I sent 2 minutes ago gave an error on a different package.

EDIT: What I was trying to say is that gnome-extra is not a actual package, but pacman itself is able to install it (it is a meta-package?).

[picodotdev]

checking the asciinema.log the problem seems to be in this line.

alis/alis-packages.sh

Line 142 in 14b7584

pacman_uninstall "pulseaudio pulseaudio-bluetooth"

Its is trying to install pipewire but for that is need to remove pulseaudio pulseaudio-bluetooth packages before, the script checks if they exist (are installed) with -Qi but on deleting with -Rdd fails saying they not exist (are not installed), should not happen.

[jaysonwcs]

Well, I have more information that may help.

In the previous tries, I first executed the alis.sh script, rebooted, downloaded the scripts again (inside my user folder), and then tried to install the packages with alis-packages.sh.

I was able to install most packages. I skipped pipewire-pulse and gnome-extra. I got an error about my user name (I don't really remember what happened, I did this too many times today, lol). I then found out it was trying to do some stuff with your user (picodotdev). I changed the USER_NAME variable in alis-commons.conf to my username and it worked!

It didn't install any flatpak packages though, saying that I did not had permission.
Tried re executing the script after that with sudo, but got other errors: first, the script tried to execute arch-chroot, but it wasn't installed (I was logged on the real Arch installation, not on the Arch ISO). Installed arch-install-scripts after that and tried again, but then got an error about chrooting to mnt.

I now started the process again, but tried to install all the packages during installation. It worked almost 100%. Didn't install gnome-extra and any flatpak package, but was able to finish without interruption.

alis.log
alis.asciinema.txt
alis.conf.txt
alis-packages.conf.txt

If you need more information, I'm willing to do that process again. It's a VM, so it's not so difficult to start from scratch.

[picodotdev]

Givin a look to the alis.log has the following message at package installation.

error: package 'gnome-extra' was not found

So, no packages and flatpak installation is expected. Not sure why failed for you gnome-extra, maybe mirror error?, I tried in my machine sudo pacman -S gnome-extra without pacman issue. Maybe you can try without gnome-extra to see if happens the same with other package or not.

[jaysonwcs]

Will try

[JSouthGB]

That is the checks function/step output, the checks function checks the packages to install are valid and exists, the packages are installed later on packages function.

After the scripts ends, are the packages installed? is the packages function/step executed?

I'm having the same issue. I've been trying this off and on since yesterday. Nothing from lines 24 and 35 are being installed. (firefox and my additional PACKAGES_PACMAN_CUSTOM=. Not even git from line 33. I've also never seen a log file for alis appear in /var/log.

I've adjusted the script to install KDE, and I've minimized what's installed (removed some of the broader packages). That works with no issues.

I've also tried running the alis-packages.conf stand alone, I see the output from pacman -Syi, but still nothing is installed.

EDIT Disregard, I found the log file and discovered I had an AUR package mixed in with PACMAN. Once I removed it, the scripts worked flawlessly.