Local pacman repo seems out of date

[sachin]

Hi All,

What could cause a situation where my pacman search gives a different latest version of a package than the online repo?

For example when I search the arch repository online I get signal-desktop 1.37.2-1

But locally I am getting:

sudo pacman -Ss signal-desktop
community/signal-desktop 1.36.2-1
    Signal Private Messenger for Linux

I should add I have run sudo pacman -Syyu

Thanks,

[chomsky]

You and I are using the Manjaro repos, manjaro stable I guess, and not Arch

                 stable     testing    unstable
signal-desktop	1.36.2-1	1.37.1-1	1.37.2-1	community

[sachin]

Thanks for the fast reply, gonna try downloading the package manually and installing it directly, skipping the repo,

[BusinessOrc]

@sachin

gonna try downloading the package manually and installing it directly, skipping the repo

That’s really not a great idea. What’s new in signal 1.37 that simply can’t wait a week?

[chomsky]

Don’t do that! That is not how a rolling release like Manjaro works. Another version might need other libraries and you’ll mess up your system.

[sachin]

Nothing new or interesting, just getting an error message when trying to link it with my phone telling me to update.

[sachin]

fair enough, thanks for the advice all

[BusinessOrc]

I use signal every single day and never experienced that. If you really want the new version you can build the git repo from the AUR.

[chomsky]

If you really want the latest version for whatever reason you can install the flatpak. A flatpak is a containerized app.

https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.signal.Signal

[sachin]

OK that is strange, I installed the latest package before I saw your awesome advice connected my phone, then removed it after seeing your advice.

I wanted to re-create what I was seeing with the update error message. So I reinstalled the normal version with pacman and now it is working, .

Here is too hoping my system doesn’t break, although it has broken so many times now I have just written a bunch of scripts that I can run and get everything back to squeaky clean. Beats Mac and Windows hands down everytime.

[chomsky]

Just keep the version that’s in the repository, that’s what I would do.

[BusinessOrc]

@sachin

Here is too hoping my system doesn’t break, although it has broken so many times now I have just written a bunch of scripts that I can run and get everything back to squeaky clean. Beats Mac and Windows hands down everytime.

That’s the spirit!

[Lord_Phan]

You could just use timeshift and create a restore point before you change anything on your system and if it breaks, you restore to where you were before the update.