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[Aragorn]

Wait, is the image you downloaded to to your pen drive this one → manjaro-kde-21.3.7-220816-linux515.iso?

If so, that’s not old — it still has Plasma 5.24 on it. But I would advise, if you reinstall from that .iso, that you first install unzip, then follow all the steps in my post #5 except for the update, and then update your system with -Syu — a single u in this case.

sudo pacman -Syu

[VirtualLusamine]

oh thats perfect but is it there a way to just block it from updating kde plasma, like whenever i press update all or syu to just not update plasma?

[Aragorn]

Well, if you follow all the steps above, then it will give preference to your local repository above the remote ones, so that should not be an issue.

But yes, there is also a way to simply exclude Plasma from being upgraded, but this method is not compatible with my instructions higher up, and it is bound to lead to even more problems in the future, because then you’re in a partial-upgrade scenario, which is not supported.

[VirtualLusamine]

ok then imma try what you are saying and ill report back in a bit

[Aragorn]

Well, that’ll be for tomorrow then on my end. It’s already 01:19 at night over here, and there’s a good chance that people are coming by for a plumbing job in my apartment tomorrow morning — they were kind enough not to inform me when they’d be coming by — so I need to go to bed soon or I’ll be a zombie tomorrow morning.

[VirtualLusamine]

same ill report tomorrow and good luck with the pluming my kind gentleman

[VirtualLusamine]

ok so i tried that and for some reason now it isnt letting me, i tried to unzip and didt work either, its not letting me download and says this:
warning: database file for ‘core’ does not exist (use ‘-Sy’ to download)
warning: database file for ‘extra’ does not exist (use ‘-Sy’ to download)
warning: database file for ‘community’ does not exist (use ‘-Sy’ to download)
warning: database file for ‘multilib’ does not exist (use ‘-Sy’ to download)
error: target not found: unzip

[Aragorn]

@VirtualLusamine

ok so i tried that and for some reason now it isnt letting me, i tried to unzip and didt work either, its not letting me download and says this:
warning: database file for ‘core’ does not exist (use ‘-Sy’ to download)
warning: database file for ‘extra’ does not exist (use ‘-Sy’ to download)
warning: database file for ‘community’ does not exist (use ‘-Sy’ to download)
warning: database file for ‘multilib’ does not exist (use ‘-Sy’ to download)

On a new install, you must first set up the database…

sudo pacman-mirrors -f 5 && sudo pacman -Syy

Normally it would be -Syyu — the double y for synchronizing the database with the mirrors, and the u for updating — but if you update now, then you’ll get Plasma 5.26.2 again. So you must skip that step.

After the synchronizing, download unzip.

sudo pacman -S unzip

After this, follow the steps as I explained earlier…

First, get the file plasma-5.24.7-LTS.zip from the link below — you only need that one file.

Release plasma-5.24.7-LTS · manjaro/plasma-5.24-lts · GitHub

Normally, the file will be in your ~/Downloads folder, and that is what I’ll be assuming for the following instructions.

Next, open up a terminal window and issue the following commands…

sudo su -
mkdir /var/cache/pacman/plasma-lts
cd /var/cache/pacman/plasma-lts
mv /home/your-username-here/Downloads/plasma-5.24.7-LTS.zip ./
unzip plasma-5.24.7-LTS.zip
repo-add plasma-lts.db.tar.xz *.zst
rm -f plasma-5.24.7-LTS.zip
cp /etc/pacman.conf /etc/pacman.conf.bak
nano /etc/pacman.conf

You will now have the file /etc/pacman.conf open in nano, which is an easy-to-use editor. Scroll down to where you see a section that has the different repositories listed, i.e. [core], [extra] and [community]. Insert a new section between the [core] and [extra] sections, as follows…

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

[plasma-lts]                                # ← new section
Server=file:///var/cache/pacman/plasma-lts  # ← new section
SigLevel = Optional TrustAll                # ← new section

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

[community]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

Save the file — if you’re not familiar with nano, press Ctrl+O followed by Enter and then exit the editor with Ctrl+X.

Next, log out of Plasma completely — you have to be looking at the SDDM login screen — and switch to a tty with Ctrl+Alt+F2. Log in as yourself and issue the command below to update your system with your local repository.

sudo pacman -Syu

After this, reboot your system…

sudo systemctl reboot

You should now upon logging in be looking at Plasma 5.24.7.

[VirtualLusamine]

ok im just having a issue because seince you responded ive been waiting for this to update and its going SO SLOW when before it did it in 2.5 minutes
am i doing something wrong?

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ok after this i just stopped updating and just followed your thing and it worked flawlessly and now it says its up to date while on 5.24
thank you for everything you angel