Removing Linux59 breaks dependency "linux59" required by linux-latest

Hello everyone,
I’ve been using Manjaro for about two or three years and I’m still a beginner. I use it for daily basic tasks on my old Asus laptop. I regularly install updates. My Manjaro-Linux experience is not extensive, and when I encounter any issues, I follow the instructions in the forum.
I’m using Manjaro-XFCE and Kernel 6.1x on my Asus laptop.
While installing new updates, I encounter this error and couldn’t find a solution:

“Removing Linux59 breaks dependency ‘linux59’ required by Linux-latest”

The solutions I found on the internet didn’t work. Could you please teach me how to resolve this issue?
Thank you.

On this forum the 2nd hit when searching for linux-latest:

level up the google-fu :wink:

Edit: There was in the past a linux-latest package that would follow the latest mainline. This package was removed a long while ago, strange that you still have it.

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What solutions?

It will be helpful to those wishing to help, if they know everything you have tried – specifics, please, rather than vague references to this and that forum post (or whatever).


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Remove linux-latest.

sudo pacman -R linux-latest
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One may wonder also about other long lived deprecated packages and orphans.

pacman -Qdtq
pacman -Qmq
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The command sudo pacman -R linux-latest solved the issue.
Manjaro is now working with the correct and updated kernel.
Thank you all for your help.

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With packages seemingly unmaintained for an undetermined amount of time it is still probably a good idea to look at ‘foreign’ packages as, while some may be from the AUR or otherwise intentionally added, the list may likely contain packages that no longer exist in the repositories or the AUR and should be removed or replaced.

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