[Stable Update] 2023-07-10 - Kernels, Plasma, Gnome, LibreOffice, Pipewire, Mozilla, Wine

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Viam supervadet vadens

Maybe this will help understand the idea: pacman/Pacnew and Pacsave - ArchWiki

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No its not … it just assumes DIFFPROG is set … if it is not set it defaults to vim -d
Ex, in my /etc/environment I have

EDITOR=/usr/bin/micro
SUDO_EDITOR=/usr/bin/micro
VISUAL=/usr/bin/kate
DIFFPROG=/usr/bin/meld

If users are not familiar with panews … they should become so … or use a different distro
(you must learn how to manage these … or it will end badly eventually)
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman/Pacnew_and_Pacsave

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I know but I decided there’s a need in the simplest solution for a newbie.

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newbies will not know how to manage vim … or even exit.

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The manjaro homepage says "user-friendly and suitable for those new to computers, " - dont be elitist

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Its not elitism … its part of the distro … if you dont learn how to manage them … it will not be a sustainable situation.

And that, along with phrasing elsewhere such as in msm-notifier, has been discussed multiple times for being considered misleading or often misconstrued.

I might point you to one of my comments on the matter:

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Newbies have probably never edited pacman.conf. So it’ll be safe for them to just do

sudo mv /etc/pacman.conf /etc/pacman.conf.pacsave
sudo mv /etc/pacman.conf.pacnew /etc/pacman.conf
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And encouragement I hope?
I have understanding and love the tiny @Manjaro-Team
Things can happen. :hearts:

To me it seems they are working their a**es of fixing everything!

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libpamac 11.5.7 should fix the false warning on successful DB sync. Was a logic error on my end when removing some code.

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Nothing is fixed here. After the update to libpamac 11.5.7, the problems persist. What a mess …

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it fixed for me - refresh databases & mirrors a couple of times, it should work out.

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That’s exactly what I’ve done several times now.

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I had to disable the “Check for updates” options, then re-enable to fix it.

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Well you can try this:

  • open a terminal
  • delete /var/tmp/pamac/dbs/sync as root
  • create /var/tmp/pamac/dbs/sync as normal user
  • run pacman -Syy as root
  • run pamac update as normal user
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@philm
I dont really understand where this commands (pacman merge) really good for… i mean, where is the goal from this?

Are this commands only for removing the Community section (eye candy) and i can skip this or is there something behind this, that i maybe dont see… maybe a bug prevention or security issue?

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I solved the issue on my side by just simply commenting out following section in /etc/pacman.conf

#[community]
#SigLevel = PackageRequired
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

After this I just updated the database. Now everything is working fine. I did not merge as suggested before.

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The “merge” would have removed the section from the file that you commented.

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This is new since the Update
This spam’s the Log

Jul 11 23:36:00 pamac-manager[3728]: Invalid UTF-8 string passed to pango_layout_set_text()
Jul 11 23:42:04 pamac-manager[3945]: Using GtkSettings:gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme with libadwaita is unsupported. Please use AdwStyleManager:color-scheme instead.
Jul 11 23:42:09 pamac-manager[3945]: _gtk_css_corner_value_get_x: assertion 'corner->class == &GTK_CSS_VALUE_CORNER' failed

and this

Jul 11 23:17:14 kded5[1275]: g_settings_set_value: key 'scaling-factor' in 'org.gnome.desktop.interface' expects type 'u', but a GVariant of type 'i' was given

i use KDE

The pipewire raop-sink bug is fixed !

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it is a wiki post. so the content may be from me or from other users. You may ask @Yochanan has he is more in keeping the files clean and tidy. On my end I never used any program to merge pacnew files when there are any.

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You use Pamac-GTK which is the GTK4 version. You may want to install pamac-gtk3 to solve your theme issue on KDE:

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