Pamac doesn't see (stable) update

[Aragorn]

Even though your pamac isn’t actually crashing (just yet), please see…

@discobot

Unreliability of the pamac package manager

Rationale

There recently appears to be a high incidence of pamac crashing in the middle of a system update, be it only in the form of the pamac-manager crashing with the update process continuing in the background, or in the form of a complete crash of the pamac infrastructure, leading to a non-bootable system.

Advice

Until the Manjaro Team has managed to correct this issue, we would advise our users…

• to either (install and) use octopi — see the screenshot below — as a graphical package manager

• …or to use the tried-and-trusted pacman from the command line for updating the repository packages, and to use the pamac command-line utility and flatpak command-line utility afterwards for updating the AUR packages and the FlatPaks, respectively, as follows…

  sudo pacman-mirrors -f && sudo pacman -Syu && pamac update --aur --devel && flatpak update

I really wish people would stop religiously insisting on using pamac when it has a list of issues from here to the moon.