This is my first time using Linux and I chose Manjaro. Firefox is not working for me. I installed it using the command “sudo pacman -S”. the Task Manager does not show that the program is running. The system is completely clean. Reinstalling did not help.
I couldn’t download using “Manjaro hello”. It freezes and does not close after 2 minutes after startup.
You are probably in a partial upgrade state due to installing the newest Firefox without updating the rest of your system. Perform a full upgrade with
sudo pacman -Syu
and then reboot. Try Firefox again.
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This suggests that the ISO you installed from may have been damaged.
- Did you verify the
SHA256
checksum of the ISO after downloading? - How did you create the bootable USB stick? (We recommend using Ventoy.)
I don’t really know what’s on the minimal ISOs, but to the best of my knowledge, firefox
should already come preinstalled on all ISOs, whether full or minimal.
Either way, after installing, you should definitely make sure that your system is fully up to date. Partial updates — i.e. the scenario where you install newer software from the repos while not updating the rest of your system — are not supported, for obvious reasons.
In addition to that, Manjaro is not exactly the most beginner-friendly distribution, by virtue of its Arch origins. I would therefore also invite you to read the following essay.
big thanks
-S
will not put you in a partial update state, unless you’ve had a failed update or used -Sy
or similar beforehand.
Forgot the isos don’t come with package databases.
No, but what @ben75 was saying is that the system may already not have been up to date from the onset — and probably wasn’t, because the installer ISOs are already outdated now, pending the official release of the Manjaro 25.0.0 Zetar ISOs — and that therefore installing software from the repos without updating the system does put the system in a partial-upgrade state.
Ah yes, if I remember correctly the iso doesn’t come with the databases.
So yeah you’d have to download the databases to install anything, therefore the databases wouldn’t be consistent with the system.

So yeah you’d have to download the databases to install anything, therefore the databases wouldn’t be consistent with the system.
Not just that, but considering that it was installed from an old ISO, one should first and foremost completely update the system before attempting to install anything at all.
I’d do that first no matter what.
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