Failed to read AUR data

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I am trying to rebuild Google Chrome as usual but I have this error:

% pamac build google-chrome                                         
Warning: Building packages as dynamic user
Warning: Setting build directory to /var/cache/pamac
Failed to read AUR data from /var/tmp/pamac/packages-meta-ext-v1.json.gz : <data>:55267:169: Parse error: scanner: unterminated string constant
Failed to read AUR data from /var/tmp/pamac/packages-meta-ext-v1.json.gz : <data>:55267:169: Parse error: scanner: unterminated string constant
Error: target not found: google-chrome

How to build Google Chome ?

The problem seems to be more general:

% pamac update -a
Preparing...
Synchronizing package databases...
Failed to read AUR data from /var/tmp/pamac/packages-meta-ext-v1.json.gz : <data>:55267:169: Parse error: scanner: unterminated string constant
Failed to read AUR data from /var/tmp/pamac/packages-meta-ext-v1.json.gz : <data>:55267:169: Parse error: scanner: unterminated string constant
Nothing to do.
Transaction successfully finished.

I have tried % sudo curl -v -L -O https://aur.manjaro.org/packages-meta-ext-v1.json.gz, it works but does not help.

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TL:DR
The complete recipe

sudo pacman-mirrors -aS unstable
sudo pacman -Syu base-devel --needed
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/google-chrome
cd google-chrome
makepkg -i
3

No problems here. Have you tried:

pamac update --force-refresh
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unfortunately the above does not help.

5

This will help; albeit, not the issue you’re having:

sudo pacman -S vivaldi

A chromium-based browser; Vivaldi is one of the better browsers you will ever use.

That is all. Cheers.

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sudo pacman-mirrors -aS unstable … Yes it works. It looks like a full reinstall. Thus I updated Google Chrome from version 122 to 124. Thanks.

7

Then you didnt grasp what was actually happening.

You changed branches to Unstable and updated - with Stable branch being at least 6 weeks behind that meant you had upgrades for virtually every package.

(also why stable branch would not work well with AUR in the first place)