Meaning of pacman error notice

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I am using Manjaro minimal Xfce. I;m relatively new to arch-based distros. Doing a sudo pacman -Syu produced the following error message: warning: lib32-mesa: local (22.0.0-1) is newer than multilib (21.3.8-2). I would like to fix this, presumably by removing the older package. How do I do that?

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Hello @rocket :wink:

Seems you switched from testing to stable branch:

$ mbn info lib32-mesa --quiet
Branch         : unstable
Name           : lib32-mesa
Version        : 22.0.2-1
Repository     : multilib
Build Date     : Fri 22 Apr 2022 19:01:58 
Packager       : Laurent Carlier <lordheavym@archlinux.org>
Branch         : testing
Name           : lib32-mesa
Version        : 22.0.1-3
Repository     : multilib
Build Date     : Wed 06 Apr 2022 23:30:58 
Packager       : Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org>
Branch         : stable
Name           : lib32-mesa
Version        : 21.3.8-2
Repository     : multilib
Build Date     : Mon 18 Apr 2022 09:37:28 
Packager       : Philip Müller <philm@manjaro.org>

You need to enable the downgrade possibility:

sudo pacman -Syyuu

OR

pamac upgrade --force-refresh --enable-downgrade

Or set it on the ignore list if you wish.

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Yes. These commands worked. Thanks very much.

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It is worth noting that you can just ignore it as it is very unlikely to cause an issue. I get warned that my Python version is newer than what is in the repos on most updates but has not caused a problem.

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For more details: [HowTo] Fix package "is newer than ..."

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