I’m thankful for all the discussion around the jack2
/pipewire-jack
conflict. For some reason for me, pacman
would not upgrade the pipewire-jack
package, only reinstall (tried with -S and -Sdd)…
$ sudo pacman -S pipewire-jack
warning: pipewire-jack-1:0.3.43-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
looking for conflicting packages...
Packages (1) pipewire-jack-1:0.3.43-1
and this had me concerned about using the pamac
GUI option mentioned (since pamac/pacman do/accomplish similar things, and even share a log file)…
Until I discovered that command line pamac
would take care of both the upgrade and jack2
removal…
$ pamac install pipewire-jack
Preparing...
Resolving dependencies...
Checking inter-conflicts...
To upgrade (1):
pipewire-jack 1:0.3.45-1 (1:0.3.43-1) extra 152.5 kB
To remove (1):
jack2 1.9.20-3 (Conflicts With: jack) extra
Not sure why pacman
gave no joy, but pamac
seemed to have stepped up.
Oops… spoke too soon. After letting answering “Y” to apply the transaction, pamac
quickly shot out “Transaction successfully finished.” without making any changes? If i run the below command back-to-back… it repeats itself thinking there’s an update and conflict to resolve… and the pamac GUI still shows jack2
installed with pipewire-jack
still not upgraded.
$ pamac install pipewire-jack
Preparing...
Resolving dependencies...
Checking inter-conflicts...
To upgrade (1):
pipewire-jack 1:0.3.45-1 (1:0.3.43-1) extra 152.5 kB
To remove (1):
jack2 1.9.20-3 (Conflicts With: jack) extra
Total download size: 152.5 kB
Total installed size: 198.7 kB
Total removed size: 2.0 MB
Apply transaction ? [y/N] y
Transaction successfully finished.
I seem to be having issues with both pamac
and pacman
and not sure why. 
I do know my mirrors are up to date and in sync…
$ pacman-mirrors
Pacman-mirrors version 4.23.2
Local mirror status for stable branch
Mirror #1 OK 02:17 Canada https://muug.ca/mirror/manjaro/
Mirror #2 OK 04:40 Canada https://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/manjaro/
Mirror #3 OK 00:20 Canada https://osmirror.org/manjaro/
Mirror #4 OK 01:17 Canada https://mirror.0xem.ma/manjaro/
EDIT: Thought I’d try a reboot, but no change… neither pamac
nor pacman
will upgrade pipewire-jack
and resolve jack2
via the command line