KDE Discover - Unable to update "kpeoplevcard"

[Aragorn]

Your mirrors and your file database are probably out of sync.

sudo pacman-mirrors -f && sudo pacman -Syyuu

Note that the use of -Syyuu is only for this one occasion. As @cscs says, this problem has been addressed a gazillion times already, and it also goes back several updates already — to the 6th of November 2023, to be precise — which suggests that you haven’t been keeping your system up to date. And…

@Petrarca

pacdiff -o gives me the following:

/usr/share/icons/default/index.theme.pacsave
/etc/shells.pacnew
/etc/firejail/firecfg.config.pacnew
/etc/fuse.conf.pacnew
/etc/locale.gen.pacnew
/etc/default/grub.pacnew
/etc/pamac.conf.pacnew
/etc/mkinitcpio.conf.pacnew
/etc/pacman.conf.pacnew
/etc/pam.d/sddm.pacnew
/etc/login.defs.pacnew

… confirms this. Therefore, please read through this short essay and draw your own conclusions…

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