Hi all,
Im currently facing an issue where I try to update the software throw the software center ‘in gnome’ and I get the following error:
I tried to do `sudo pacman -Syu’ but nothing was there to update and the error message is not readable to be able to debug it using the software center.
Welcome to the forum! 
Obviously, you are trying to build vmware-workstation from the AUR, and for some reason, the build process aborts as a result of conflicting packages. Usually, this means that the PKGBUILD would be trying to pull in an older or otherwise incompatible version of a package already installed on your system.
Do please however note that the use of the AUR is not supported, as well as that for best success with the AUR, you should be running the Unstable branch of Manjaro, given that the AUR is intended to be used with Arch proper, and Manjaro Unstable is the closest thing to Arch Stable.
pacman does not access the AUR. It only works with the Manjaro repositories. The GUI package manager you are using here is pamac, which does cover the AUR, as well as Snaps and FlatPaks.
Hi Aragorn,
thanks for your reply.
I don’t think it is vmware-workstation I removed it and still getting the same issue.
Error: unresolvable package conflicts detected
Error: Failed to prepare transaction:
conflicting dependencies:
- ltq�XQ��pŒn� and ���oi�A ��n� are in conflict
is there a way to identify which packages are causing the conflict? this way i will need to go and remove all aur packages (which might not solve the issue)
the other thing is that the error message of which package are in conflict are unreadable as it shows above
Maybe some font, or database is broken. Because there are no nonenglish characters in package names, and no package starts with ltq.
I highly doubt we will be able to help. You have many aur packages, which are not officially supported, and that on the stable branch, which is advised against, so double unsupported. Could be literally anything and judging by your skill level (posting pictures of text and installing a bunch of big aur on stable) it will take ages to debug.
As a starting point, delete aur cache, use different aur helper like yay.
But maybe someone else sees the things more optimistic.
Hi @Teo
after some tinkering I managed to solve the issue. I wrote some python script to delete all the aur packages from the system. some gave me an error as they are dependencies for other packages which I ignored (mainly python2 packages). after the update works fine. I’m still curious of why I got this weird conflict error with all the weird characters that made debugging and finding a solution almost impossible.
Take a look at /var/log/pacman.log to see if there are some clues, or next time try LANG=C sudo pacman -Syu to see if it’s more readable.
You did not need to write a whole script for this…
sudo pacman -Rsu $(pacman -Qm)
removes all aur. Be sure to clean the cache too.
Thanks @Teo
I guess this would’ve worked. but what can I say as a developer that is what you do ( If the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat everything as if it were a nail)
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