hi i am having the same issue and i am on stable release tree if any one have solve it please let me know error: failed retrieving file ‘community.db’ from ftp.snt.utwente.nl : The requested URL returned error: 404 failed retrieving file ‘community.db’ from ct.mirror.garr.it : The requested URL r…

[image] a2apple: error: failed retrieving file ‘community.db’ from ftp.snt.utwente.nl : The requested URL returned error: 404 The contents of the community.db were merged into extra.db two years ago, and this was announced on one of the Stable Updates threads. This meant that from that mome…

[image] Issue upadting Manjaro using pacman error: failed retrieving file ‘community.db See here: Community Repository Error - #2 by linux-aarhus

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The community repo doesn’t exist anymore. Edit it out of /etc/pacman.conf or just generally tend to any .pacnew files in a timely fashion. This one you have had for quite some time …

see right there - in the replies to your other, essentially duplicate post please don’t ask the same question twice

Please see: [image] Update - error: failed retrieving file 'community.db' Notices Long time ago the community packages was moved to the extra repo and the community was informed. → forum announcements for “The community repository has been merged into extra” …

You can do this simply with the following commands in the terminal. sudo cp /etc/pacman.conf /etc/pacman.conf.original sudo cp /etc/pacman.conf.pacnew /etc/pacman.conf sudo pacman-mirrors --fasttrack sudo pacman -Syu

@admdb just copyng over pacnews over is a recipe for disaster. Do not teach obviously very inexperienced users to do that, because next time they will do it with .passwd for example!

That wipes out any changes made by the user. .pacnew files should be merged properly, and this is an easy one which is good for cutting your teeth on.

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