I am having trouble updating my system. I get the message (on my laptop):
Preparing...
Synchronizing package databases...
Error: GPGME error: No data
Error: failed retrieving file 'community.db' from mirror.futureweb.be : The requested URL returned error: 404
Error: failed retrieving file 'community.db' from mirror.yandex.ru : The requested URL returned error: 404
Error: failed retrieving file 'community.db' from mirrors.xtom.ee : The requested URL returned error: 404
Error: GPGME error: No data
Failed to synchronize databases
Failed to prepare transaction:
invalid or corrupted database
I found a similar problem reported for 2022, and tried the suggestion there to force refresh of pamac (pamac update --force-refresh), but that failed to do anything.
Previously when Updates failed, I just waited a few days, and tried again, but that hasn’t worked this time.
I’ve used Manjaro for several years, but am definitely an amateur!
I mostly use my Linux system for writing up Music (Musescore) but I can’t persuade the newest AppImage to work - all was fine about a week ago!
I’m hoping time will sort the problem, but is someone can suggest an action that might work - happy to use the terminal, but limited knowledge so nothing too hard!
You need to remove (or at least add a # to the beginning of) the [community] lines in /etc/pacman.conf. Usually that and one or two following, before the next blank line.
sudo nano /etc/pacman.conf
This is documented in a Sticky at the top of the Updates section:
There will likely be a number of other files which need to be tended to. Please post output of:
pacdiff -o
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This may also be helpful:
NOTE: Edited as I posted incorrect commands first time.
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I managed to change the pacman.conf file (it had 3 lines, so presumably very old)
I tried “pacdiff -o”
But the command could not be found: (“bash: pacdiff: command not found”)
I followed, as suggested, sudo pacman-mirrors --continent && sudo pacman -Syu
But it ultimately failed:
::INFO Downloading mirrors from Manjaro
::INFO => Mirror pool: https://repo.manjaro.org/mirrors.json
::INFO => Mirror status: https://repo.manjaro.org/status.json
::INFO User generated mirror list
::------------------------------------------------------------
::INFO Custom mirror file saved: /var/lib/pacman-mirrors/custom-mirrors.json
::INFO Using default mirror file
::INFO Querying mirrors - This may take some time
0.633 United_Kingdom : https://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/repo.manjaro.org/re
0.678 United_Kingdom : http://manjaro.mirrors.uk2.net/
0.277 United_Kingdom : https://ask4.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/
::INFO Writing mirror list
::United_Kingdom : https://ask4.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable
::United_Kingdom : https://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/repo.manjaro.org/repos/sta
::United_Kingdom : http://manjaro.mirrors.uk2.net/stable
::INFO Mirror list generated and saved to: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
:: Synchronising package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
multilib is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: installing icu (76.1-1) breaks dependency 'libicui18n.so=75-64' required by electron28
:: installing icu (76.1-1) breaks dependency 'libicuuc.so=75-64' required by electron28
:: installing flac (1.5.0-1) breaks dependency 'libFLAC.so=12-64' required by electron28
:: installing icu (76.1-1) breaks dependency 'libicui18n.so=75-64' required by electron30
:: installing icu (76.1-1) breaks dependency 'libicuuc.so=75-64' required by electron30
:: installing flac (1.5.0-1) breaks dependency 'libFLAC.so=12-64' required by electron30
(I’m in the UK, so left just the UK lines above.)
Sorry for being so useless - there is probably something really obvious I just don’t know about. I hadn’t updated for a while, and expect this may be why I’m having problems. I think it may be that I really don’t quite follow how to get my system to find the new community repository.
Thank you for writing out the full command line.
You will need to install pacman-contrib — sorry, I should have mentioned that! — Do this without the yu i.e.:
sudo pacman -S pacman-contrib
There isn’t going to be a “new” community repo. The packages there were all moved to extra over a year ago.
Also, you will need to remove those old electron packages — I have a very old version (12) but it doesn’t affect anything other than etcher which I have no need for, so I’ll probably just get rid of them in my case.
Try removing:
sudo pacman -Rns electron28 electron30
If it lists dependencies or it looks like it’s going to remove a load of stuff, post the output here before proceeding (hit n to cancel).
N.B. It would not hurt to run pacman -Qii electron28 and pacman -Qii electron30 first, before attempting to remove — this will show what depends on these versions.
