Hi @zeus1, and welcome!
I detect an XY problem here.
You don’t want to remove that file, not really. You want to fix thee error, and it seems the way is by removing that file, while it is, actually, essential.
That is the real problem. It couldn’t sync the databases, and to do that it needs a file that it was unable to retrieve. Which sounds like some kind of internet connectivity problem. Most likely a DNS problem, if we go with my guess.
Please open a terminal, and run the following commands and provide the output here afterwards:
ping manjaro.org
And
ping 1.1.1.1
and
ip a
Hope you manage!
Tip:
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This will just cause it to be rendered like this:
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Instead of like this:
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Alternatively, paste the text you wish to format as terminal output, select all pasted text, and click the </> button on the taskbar. This will indent the whole pasted section with one TAB, causing it to render the same way as described above.
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Also, if your language isn’t English, please prepend any and all terminal commands with LC_ALL=C
. For example:
LC_ALL=C bluetoothctl
This will just cause the terminal output to be in English, making it easier to understand and debug.
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