“Testing” branch should be on nvidia driver 580. But using pamac (or pacman) to update/install the nvidia.utils, it adamantly sticks to 575 from the stable release and fails dependencies etc.
What am I not understanding? Is it bad to do that with pamac/pacman and is mhwd the way to install the updated drivers?
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Have you updated your mirrors and your databases before trying to update? 
sudo pacman-mirrors -f && sudo pacman -Fy && sudo pacman -Syyu
mhwd is just another and for newbies easier way of doing things, but at the back-end, it’s still using pacman. So it’s not wrong to do it with pacman, but it’s more work that way. 
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Yes, I followed what was described on
The pacman-mirrors command when switching to testing actually already seems to have created a mirror list with all mirrors. The fasttrack followup seems to only to limit them again. I tried various states of that, using the original large one, the one limited to fasttrack and one limited to geo ip and once continental and so on. The result is always the same.
mhwd -i pci linux-nvidia does the same.
Everything complains inthe end, that there’s an unresolvable dependency with lib32-nvidia-utils requiring nvidia-utils 580.82.07. But installing those always goes for version 575, not 580.
What happens if you install it via pacman?
pacman -Su nvidia-utils is listing nvidia-utils-575.64.05-1 as being prepared for download (including a few packages with egl- in their name). And to my knowledges, it should download 580, not 575. 575 is what the stable branch is using asfaik. pacman-mirrors -G however clearly shows I am on testing.
Never use -Su Always use -Syu, and when switching branches, you might want to use -Syyu instead.
You should be using the command:
sudo pacman -Syu nvidia-utils
The y part of the command syncs your local database with the mirrors:
pacman -S --help | grep -F -- -y
-y, --refresh download fresh package databases from the server
(-yy to force a refresh even if up to date)
nvidia-utils is definitely v580 in the Testing repos:
mbn info nvidia-utils -q | grep -Ev 'Name|Repository|Packager'
Branch : archlinux
Version : 580.82.09-1
Build Date : Thu 11 Sep 2025 03:02:15
Branch : unstable
Version : 580.82.09-1
Build Date : Thu 11 Sep 2025 04:00:23
Branch : testing
Version : 580.82.07-1
Build Date : Wed 03 Sep 2025 02:05:48
Branch : stable
Version : 575.64.05-1
Build Date : Wed 23 Jul 2025 02:17:11
mbn can be found in the manjaro-check-repos package
$ pamac info nvidia-utils Name : nvidia-utils Version : 580.82.07-1 Packager : Mark Wagie <mark@manjaro.org> Build Date : Tue 02 Sep 2025 17:05:48 BST
Manjaro 2025-08-29 Testing Update ($1143) · Snippets · GitLab
PACKAGE 20250826 20250829 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- nvidia-utils 575.64.05-1 580.76.05-2`
$ pacman-mirrors Pacman-mirrors version 5.1 Local mirror status for testing branch Mirror #1 OK 00:05 Global https://mirrors.manjaro.org/repo/ Mirror #2 OK 00:05 Global https://mirrors2.manjaro.org/
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Excuse me, the pacman -Su was a typo … I mean pacman -Syu. Installed mbn, ran mbn update and did the mbn query shown … I also get displayed 580.
I still only get offered 575 whe doing pacman -Syu nvidia-utils. I don’t understand what I have to do to get 580.
PS: I can’t provide the output of commands. I’m not at home and trying to figure out the issue with virtualbox on windows here. Cut and paste does not work … unless you want everything as a screenshot image? Therefore, inxi is also not usable here. But I assume, simply installing packages should also work on the virtualbox manjaro (which has no nvidia card of course).
It’s okay; we trust your observation to be correct. I cannot check the situation myself as I don’t have Nvidia graphics, and I’m on the Stable branch myself anyway. 
The error is:
“pacman -Syu nvidia-utils” offering me nvidia-utils-757.64.05-1, followed up by “can’t download nvidia-utils-575.64.05-1-x86_64.pkg.tar-zst”, repeated for every mirror in the mirrorlist.
It never offers 580.
Which Manjaro edition are you using?
To the extent possible I’ll try to duplicate your experiment.
Most recent Manjaro? Downloaded it a few days ago. Not sure what edition means (with this rolling updates system).
PS: I can not even show screenshots … neither does the editor here let me embed media (despite offering the image button), not does it let me link URLs.
Try:
imgur DOT com SLASH Ba2gF9z
imgur DOT com SLASH rt84Lz2
I think @soundofthunder means whether you’re on Plasma, GNOME or Xfce. 
In that case, KDE. Although I’m not sure how that is important regarding nvidia drivers 
Manjaro has three editions – GNOME, Plasma and XFCE – you choose one by downloading the respective ISO.
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Got it now?
We don’t fully understand the issue you’re experiencing, so I’ll match what you have done as closely as possible.
No prob. Try the screenshots I provided above … change DOT and SLASH to the corresponding characters. They show what I’m getting in the console.
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