Pamac problem with AUR

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I’ve been looking for a solution but did not really see a solution.

When updating with pamac I get the following warning:

Refreshing AUR...                                                                                                                                                                             
3.5 MB/10.7 MB: Operation not permitted                                                                                                                                                       
6.6 MB/10.7 MB: Operation not permitted                                                                                                                                                       
cp: preserving times for '/var/tmp/pamac/dbs/sync': Operation not permitted                                                                                                                   
chmod: changing permissions of '/var/tmp/pamac/dbs/sync': Operation not permitted

I don’t get that when I run as su, but I suppose that should not be the case. How can I repair this?

Post Update May 13: Screen suddenly froze
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There is no circumstance that I’m aware of that running pamac as root should be entertained; not even using sudo.

However, try refreshing the database, and see if that helps.

pamac update --no-aur --force-refresh

If successful, run again while omitting the --no-aur if you have AUR packages to update.

Cheers.

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Seems like the files in sync are owned by root. Either delete them and let pamac resync and recreate or chown them to your user.

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sudo rm -rf /var/tmp/pamac

Assuming you are using stable branch - you should not enable custom build scripts even less automate the rebuild.

Because custom scripts hosted on AUR expects an up-to-date Arch Linux - the concensus is - if you require custom buildscripts - you should be using testing or unstable branch.

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