Pamac stuck at "pending operation"

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Hi guys!

I have a little bit of a … strange one .. and I don’t really know how to troubleshoot.
The “Add/Remove Software” (pamac i guess) is stuck at “pending operation” (see below, trying to install Bitwarden)

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I have looked around, and some old reddit post looking similar says to “sudo pacman -Syyu”. I have with no error messages.

Thoughts?

Thank you for any help.

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If you are doing it on command line with sudo pacman -Sy bitwarden, what happens?
It should do something and put some info on the screen.

Finally you can find the pacman.log in /var/log
you can review the last lines with sudo tail /var/log/pacman.log

A pending operation can also be caused by a still running pamac process in the background.

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For the sake of reproducing - I just tested with the Pamac GUI - no issues.

I am thinking an issue with the mirror perhaps caused by intermittent network errors.

Try change the primary mirror - you can use Pamac - try the Global option.

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Thank you. I tried this, but the “bitwarden” in the extra official repos is old, and I wanted to install the Snap version. This way bitwarden install fine, not just the one i want.. :slight_smile:

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I see - that information is lacking from your initial topic.

Using snap may require some additional configuring, did you configure your system use snaps?

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I got one step further it seems with updated the mirrors. Pamac is not stuck at checking dependencies…

Another strange thing… I cannot open “Preferences” in Pamac… it just… hangs…

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I am sligtly confused about your latest comments.

I am not using snap - but I tested the following

systemctl start snapd
snap install bitwarden

This will install the bitwarden snap.

To run the app

snap run bitwarden

To activate snapd on boot - you will have to use

systemctl enable snapd

As I am not using snap - I have no idea if you need more configuration than the above - you will have to figure this out yourself - if the app does not behave as expected, this could be an indicator that more configuration is required.

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I would suggest you follow our comments and leave the pamac GUI unused.
Go back to the command line and try it there.

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Latest version of bitwarden is available from AUR:

$ pamac info bitwarden-bin
Name                  : bitwarden-bin
Version               : 2026.3.1-1
Description           : A secure and free password manager for all of your devices.
URL                   : https://bitwarden.com
Licences              : GPL-3.0-only
Repository            : AUR
Groups                : --
Depends On            : alsa-lib gtk3 libnotify org.freedesktop.secrets libxtst libxss libnss_nis nss
Optional Dependencies : --
Make Dependencies     : --
Check Dependencies    : --
Provides              : bitwarden
Replaces              : --
Conflicts With        : bitwarden
Maintainer            : yochananmarqos
First Submitted       : Tue 29 Oct 2024 21:08:11 GMT
Last Modified         : Thu 02 Apr 2026 18:48:06 BST
Votes                 : 15
Out of Date           : --

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