what desktop are you using? kde, gnome?
you can open with your text editor, im on kde and using kate so the command would look like this: kate /etc/pacman.conf
you replace kate with the name of the text editor you are using…
you can open it also by navigating to the location using your file manager …
or you can use nano editor: sudo nano /etc/pacman.conf
press ctrl+/ and enter the number 45 - edit this line: SigLevel = Required DatabaseOptional - its on the 45 line
to look like this: SigLevel = Optional TrustAll
then press ctrl+x to save it and rerun update again
Brahma, just wanted to say you are awesome and thank you so much for your patience.
I made the changes via Kate per your suggestion, Ctrl X was giving me fits, but I saved it with the button and then reopened it to make sure.
Another dumb question, but since all the problems I do not want to screw something up.
Since I never completed answering all the questions, do I just X out of Konsole to start the update process again? Also is it necessary to start at the beginning of your procedure or just enter the command: sudo pacman -Syuu ??
if you were using kate, you just save it normally by pressing the x and it will prompt you for your password …
the ctrl+x was only for the nano editor
you run only the update command: pamac update
or sudo pacman -Syu
or you use gui - open add/remove software app and click updates - the most preferable option for me
Brahma,
It has been over 2 hours now and I thought Pacman was working his little heart out, but I did not realize that Konsole was still open and waiting for me to answer yes or now fro our troubleshooting session.
Now that Konsole is closed, Pacman seems to be working to put Humpty Dumpty is getting put back together again. At least I hope that is the case and we are on the road to less anxiety and a whole lot of productivity again. If not I will be back for some more direction.
In anticipation that all is well, I want to express my utmost appreciation for your most expert assistance, ,as well as your outstanding demonstration of patience by walking me through the process.
I have also book marked your previous resource related to learning Linux and I also was wondering if by chance you may could point me to a EASY TO COMPREHEND tutorial that would provide me the steps and knowledge required to segregate my home folder onto another hard drive.
I have three hard drives, one 2.5" SATA with 2 TB of space that currently has all my data and Manajaro on it. I also have a 500 GB NVMe drive that has Windows on it and then another 500 GB NVMe drive that I somehow managed to install Manjaro on twice! I also have 64 GB of RAM.
What I think I want to do, is store my data and my home folder on the SATA drive and then Windows and Manjaro on one NVMe drive and then Windows and if it seems logical and for redunduncy sake, install Windows and Manjaro on the other NVMe drive as well, just to protect me from what I have been dealing with the last week or so.
Any thoughts or wisdom you care to share would be appreciated and again, I very much appreciate your kindness and willingness to help an old man and geek at heart.