I’m trying to do a system upgrade with Pacman, but I keep getting this error: error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/local/libgusb-0.3.4-1/desc: No such file or directory resolving dependencies... looking for conflicting packages... warning: could not fully load metadata for package libgusb-0.3…

[image] verdacerbo: What can I do to fix this? I would suggest: delete the folder and upgrade again sudo rm -Rf /var/lib/pacman/local/libgusb-0.3.4-1/ sudo pacman -Syu

Just posted this for you :wink: [image] Update or package installation returns “error: failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package)” Tutorials I can’t install or update a package because I get (something like) this: error: failed to commit tran…

Also … if you have touched mirrors in any way or your mirrors are being ranked in the background (such as by pamac-mirrorlist.timer) then make sure to use 2 y’s to refresh db. sudo pacman -Syyu

Thank you so much! That worked! How do I upgrade libgusb, though? It’s not showing up as installed in Octopi anymore, and when I try to install it, it gives me these errors: error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) libgusb: /usr/bin/gusbcmd exists in filesystem libgusb: /usr/include…

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Update or package installation returns “Failed to commit transaction (conflicting files); FILENAME exists in filesystem” Tutorials

I can’t install or update a package because I get (something like) this: error: could not prepare transaction error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) libname: /insert/file/name/here exists in filesystem Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. Why is this happening? The package manager, pacman, has detected an unexpected file already exists on disk. By design it will not overwrite files that already exist. This is a design feature, not a flaw - package managers are desig…

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