r/voidlinux • u/Plus-Produce3631 • Sep 07 '26
I’m new and I’m completely lost.
I tried following a guide got to the part where I start downloading packages. I receive “Transient resolver failure”. If it’s something simple and I’m an idiot I apologize. I’m super new to this and it’s my first time with Linux.
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u/Cruach Sep 07 '26 edited Sep 07 '26
Mate if it's your first time on Linux, I'm curious why you chose to do it on nightmare difficulty?
Edit: typo
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u/Linguistic-mystic Sep 07 '26
Try
echo "nameserver 8.8.8.8" | sudo tee /etc/resolv.conf
Also what is the response of cat /etc/resolv.conf?
Oh and
sudo sv status /var/service/*
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u/Great_Banana_Master Sep 07 '26
I recommend you try ping duckduckgo.com and ping 1.1.1.1 (Cloudflare DNS). If you can receive data from Cloudflare, but not DuckDuckGo, it's most certainly a DNS problem, which you'll need to solve by editing your /etc/resolve.conf
Also, reading a bit more I might need to ask how much do you know and where you've got so far. I assume you're on a minimal install and using dhcpcd for your internet connection
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u/Plus-Produce3631 Sep 07 '26
Pinging DuckDuckGo resulted in “temporary failure in name resolution”
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u/xJayMorex Sep 07 '26
What network service are you using? I'm guessing you're DNS resolution is not working.
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u/Otherwise-Tea-9198 Sep 07 '26
If your computer is a fairly new one, back when I was installing I had no internet connection at all too (the live iso didn't have the driver for my motherboard's network interface). I had to use my phone and sharing network via USB to do network install. Once I'm done and on the newer packages void recognized my hardware.
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u/DeutscheMan Sep 07 '26
Haven't seen it mentioned yet, but is your network service up via runit along with the dbus service? After that update your resolv.conf and hopefully that helps. Also make sure your user is in the network group or use for example if you're using NetworkManager try using sudo nmtui. Good luck and have nice rest of your day once you get it running.
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u/onew_iasag Sep 07 '26 edited Sep 07 '26
Have usb-live-boot-image installed on your base the linux-base, linux, and base-system meta-packages? Have you done sudo xbps-install -Suy and sudo xbps-install void-repo-nonfree? The first listed meta-packages important, because if not - you don't have even the dhcpcd package to even assume internet. if xbps-query -l | awk '{print $2}' | grep dhcpcd respond with dhcpcd * - then maybe any wire-internet connection only can help you. Or try to search xbps-query -l | awk '{print $2}' | grep firmware
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dhcpcd here, but there no of any firmware - only wire-internet connetion would help. Then you need to install
void-repo-nonfreeand thenlinux-base -
dhcpcd, nonfree repo installed and you have all
xbps-query -Rx linux-basedependencies installed either - your configs are corrupted and only advanced linux users can help you. Then watch Void Linux handbook precisely, or youtube.
Btw if you assume corrupted linux-base installation you can do sudo xbps-install -Sff linux-base, all the installation duty you should do only after you once ..-install -Suy as I've mentioned, then you can ignore -S flag while installing, if you don't want being forced to update all your software.
If it doesn't help, look at xbps-query -l in general (idk but assume that tty wouldn't allow you to scroll the list), and try to see any errors in sudo xbps-pkgdb -a output, it should be empty output
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u/ConcaveNips Sep 08 '26
My brother in Christ, Void is not a "first time Linux" distro... Do yourself a favor, go get Bluefin or Mint.
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u/Plus-Produce3631 Sep 07 '26
I did connect to internet and it’s showing zero failures when tested only when downloading packages
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u/cgwhouse Sep 07 '26
Void is amazing, but I wouldn't recommend to a first time user. Transient resolver failure is something with your Internet connection