I can't install anything

tor · 11 January 2025 10:01

Apparently, I started installing something wrong, I don’t remember what, and now every time I install something, it gives me

timeshift: '/usr/share/metainfo/timeshift.appdata.xml ' exists in the file system
timeshift: '/usr/share/pixmaps/timeshift.png' exists in the file system
timeshift: '/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/in.teejeetech.pkexec.timeshift.policy' exists in the file system
Errors detected, packages not updated.

exists in the file system!!!
What to do about it?
How do I install anything???

System:
  Kernel: 6.11.11-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1
    clocksource: tsc avail: acpi_pm
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.11-x86_64
    root=UUID=d7cee9aa-3f30-4ae6-a561-340e87bcbd59 rw quiet
    cryptdevice=UUID=cf283cc2-79db-41e1-bd0c-dfae96dd2873:luks-cf283cc2-79db-41e1-bd0c-dfae96dd2873
    root=/dev/mapper/luks-cf283cc2-79db-41e1-bd0c-dfae96dd2873 splash
    udev.log_priority=3
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.2.4 tk: Qt v: N/A info: frameworks v: 6.8.0
    wm: kwin_x11 vt: 2 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HONOR product: BRN-FXXC v: M1010
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: HONOR model: BRN-FXXC-PCB v: M1010 serial: <superuser required>
    part-nu: C170 uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: HONOR v: 1.00 date: 10/09/2023
CPU: 8-core (4-mt/4-st) 12th Gen Intel Core i5-12450H (-MST AMCP-)
speed/min/max: 683/400/4400:3300 MHz Kernel: 6.11.11-1-MANJARO x86_64
Up: 2h 4m Mem: 4.45/15.35 GiB (29.0%) Storage: 476.94 GiB (26.5% used)
Procs: 290 Shell: Zsh inxi: 3.3.36

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Mirdarthos · 11 January 2025 10:04

Hi @tor, and welcome!

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Wollie · 11 January 2025 10:10

Try:

sudo pacman-mirrors --geoip
sudo pacman -S --overwrite \* timeshift
sudo pacman -Syu

Afterwards review the timeshift settings, again.

tor · 11 January 2025 10:30

Yes,now there is no problem with timeshift, but installing yay and other programs returns the same ay:'/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/yay.mo' exists in the file system yay: '/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/yay.mo' exists in the file system yay: '/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/yay.mo' exists in the file system yay: '/usr/share/man/man8/yay.8.gz ' exists in the file system yay: '/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_yay' exists in the file system Errors have been detected, packages have not been updated.

Mirdarthos · 11 January 2025 10:38

Let’s go the nuclear option:

Note:

This is very dangerous and can wreck your system.

sudo pacman -Syu --overwrite \*

…cut since your system isn’t working at the moment, it’s already sort-of wrecked, correct? Still, be careful.

tor · 11 January 2025 10:44

[sudo] password for tor:
:: Updating package databases...
main updated
, additional updated
, multi-library updated
:: A full system update is being launched...
there is nothing more to do```
It didn't work anyway

Mirdarthos · 11 January 2025 10:48

OK, this doesn’t look right. You won’t be able to install anything. Please provide the output of:

cat /etc/pacman.conf

tor · 11 January 2025 10:49

#
# /etc/pacman.conf
#
# See the pacman.conf(5) manpage for option and repository directives

#
# GENERAL OPTIONS
#
[options]
# The following paths are commented out with their default values listed.
# If you wish to use different paths, uncomment and update the paths.
#RootDir     = /
#DBPath      = /var/lib/pacman/
CacheDir = /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
#LogFile     = /var/log/pacman.log
#GPGDir      = /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/
#HookDir     = /etc/pacman.d/hooks/
HoldPkg      = pacman glibc manjaro-system
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/curl -L -C - -f -o %o %u
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget --passive-ftp -c -O %o %u
#CleanMethod = KeepInstalled
#UseDelta    = 0.7
Architecture = auto

# Pacman won't upgrade packages listed in IgnorePkg and members of IgnoreGroup
#IgnorePkg   =
#IgnoreGroup =

#NoUpgrade   =
#NoExtract   =

# Misc options
#UseSyslog
#Color
#NoProgressBar
# We cannot check disk space from within a chroot environment
CheckSpace
#VerbosePkgLists
ParallelDownloads = 4

# By default, pacman accepts packages signed by keys that its local keyring
# trusts (see pacman-key and its man page), as well as unsigned packages.
SigLevel    = Required DatabaseOptional
LocalFileSigLevel = Optional
#RemoteFileSigLevel = Required

# NOTE: You must run `pacman-key --init` before first using pacman; the local
# keyring can then be populated with the keys of all official Manjaro Linux
# packagers with `pacman-key --populate archlinux manjaro`.

#
# REPOSITORIES
#   - can be defined here or included from another file
#   - pacman will search repositories in the order defined here
#   - local/custom mirrors can be added here or in separate files
#   - repositories listed first will take precedence when packages
#     have identical names, regardless of version number
#   - URLs will have $repo replaced by the name of the current repo
#   - URLs will have $arch replaced by the name of the architecture
#
# Repository entries are of the format:
#       [repo-name]
#       Server = ServerName
#       Include = IncludePath
#
# The header [repo-name] is crucial - it must be present and
# uncommented to enable the repo.
#

# The testing repositories are disabled by default. To enable, uncomment the
# repo name header and Include lines. You can add preferred servers immediately
# after the header, and they will be used before the default mirrors.

[core]
SigLevel = PackageRequired
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[extra]
SigLevel = PackageRequired
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

# If you want to run 32 bit applications on your x86_64 system,
# enable the multilib repositories as required here.

[multilib]
SigLevel = PackageRequired
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

# An example of a custom package repository.  See the pacman manpage for
# tips on creating your own repositories.
#[custom]
#SigLevel = Optional TrustAll
#Server = file:///home/custompkgs

Mirdarthos · 11 January 2025 10:57

That looks OK. So it’s possible something went missing in translation somewhere.

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.

So please provide the complete, unchanged output of the following:

LC_ALL=C sudo pacman -Syu --overwrite \*

Mirdarthos · 11 January 2025 11:00

That’s not the output I asked for…

tor · 11 January 2025 11:07

Sorry, try again.
[sudo] password for tor: 
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 multilib is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
 there is nothing to do

Mirdarthos · 11 January 2025 11:10

Hmmm…let’s try the following"

LC_ALL=C sudo pacman -Syu --overwrite='*'

The complete output again please.

tor · 11 January 2025 11:11

 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 multilib is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
 there is nothing to do

Mirdarthos · 11 January 2025 11:22

OK, everything looks good, so reboot and try installing something again, but this time add the prefix for the translation to it:

LC_ALL=C <theCommand>

and provide the output here.

tor · 11 January 2025 11:27

LC_ALL=C sudo pacman -S yay   
yay: /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/yay.mo exists in filesystem
yay: /usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/yay.mo exists in filesystem
yay: /usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/yay.mo exists in filesystem
yay: /usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/yay.mo exists in filesystem
yay: /usr/share/locale/fr_FR/LC_MESSAGES/yay.mo exists in filesystem
yay: /usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/yay.mo exists in filesystem
yay: /usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/yay.mo exists in filesystem
yay: /usr/share/locale/it_IT/LC_MESSAGES/yay.mo exists in filesystem
yay: /usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/yay.mo exists in filesystem
yay: /usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/yay.mo exists in filesystem
yay: /usr/share/locale/pl_PL/LC_MESSAGES/yay.mo exists in filesystem
yay: /usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/yay.mo exists in filesystem
yay: /usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/yay.mo exists in filesystem
yay: /usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/yay.mo exists in filesystem
yay: /usr/share/locale/ru_RU/LC_MESSAGES/yay.mo exists in filesystem
yay: /usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/yay.mo exists in filesystem
yay: /usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/yay.mo exists in filesystem
yay: /usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/yay.mo exists in filesystem
yay: /usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/yay.mo exists in filesystem
yay: /usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/yay.mo exists in filesystem
yay: /usr/share/man/man8/yay.8.gz exists in filesystem
yay: /usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_yay exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
there are still a lot of files

Mirdarthos · 11 January 2025 11:53

Do that again, but this time add the --overwrite argument:

LC_ALL=C sudo pacman -S yay --overwrite='*'

tor · 11 January 2025 13:51

Yeeees!!! now it has been established. Why doesn’t it work as standard?

system · 14 January 2025 13:52

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