Tried running sudo pacman -Syu "pacman>=6.0.2-11" (XFCE x64 variant of manjaro) and got this:
:: Synchronising package databases...
core is up to date
extra 1641.4 KiB 1145 KiB/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
community 6.8 MiB 1214 KiB/s 00:06 [######################] 100%
multilib is up to date
error: target not found: pacman>=6.0.2-11
What should I do to try and resolve the target not found issue?
Moderator edit: Included command for context
you have community repo in your /etc/pacman.conf
Took me a few minutes to find the /etc/pacman.conf (because I forgot the path), commented out the community related lines and redid the command, still same output. The package manager did notify me of out of date packages though, should I show you the contents of the pacman.conf? Not sure if itās sensitive enough to hide.
Is your mirror OK?
Should be, Iāve set it to UK for speed since I live in the UK
Edit: Doing a side by side comparison the only notable differences I see are the inclusion of SigLevel = PackageRequired in the original mirror configs and the inclusion of ILoveCandy in the new configs. Gonna try setting the mirrors to worldwide, maybe it was simply too soon to be trying the UK mirrors for this.
Edit 2: Nope, no change
Youāre either not using the unstable branch or your mirrors are not up to date.
Donāt do that. Merge the .pacnew instead once you actually are up to date.
That makes no difference as he hasnāt been able to update yet. Either way, the community repo still exists for now, itās just empty.
If by unstable you mean the kernel then I have the latest available to me running, 6.3.3-1
You misunderstood, unstable branch;
Youāre probably on another branch (stable)?
Check:
$ pacman-mirrors --get-branch
This would indicate you are using the Stable branch.
https://packages.manjaro.org/?query=linux63
(all the more interesting considering this thread is split off from posts you initiated in an Unstable Announcement thread)
Yeah Iāve just done the switch to āunstableā branch and getting different results now, probably need to close the browser in a minute with all the updates going on
Why are you trying to install āpacman>=6.0.2-11ā instead of just pacman (which you should already have)? Packages arenāt named like that.
Its one of the prescribd ways for ensuring you get the ānew formatā with the mirror change and stuff.
Though ā¦ its not necessary to specifically target it if you simply do your updates.
(again this thread is split from the unstable announcements where that command is cited)
Terminal says I have a total of 416 downloads to make and browser is responding a bit slow now so Iāll just close it for now, I have the tabs pinned anyways
Are you sure you want to switch to Unstable?
Are you willing to get updates about daily ā¦ be closer to arch ā¦ and handle more things on your own ?
Thats what you are signing up for. 
Of course ā¦ you can switch branches again at any time.
After which you can simply wait for your branch to catch up ā¦ or even allow downgrades while syncing to re-align with the branch. ex: sudo pacman -Syuu .
Welp downloads & updates finishedā¦ I think, it kicked me out of my login session as soon as it was done, Iām assuming thatās the expected behaviour. As for the being sure thing, Iād rather stay on stable but this is one of those times where I probably have to accept being on the unstable branch temporarily. Itās not a branch I expect to stay on permanently, just until the stable branch has finished the transition. Besides I do have just enough tech skills to cope with terminal related stuff and digging into the system internals when necessary, I just make a point of avoiding doing so to keep my system as stable as possible.
No offence but nowhere near as bad as that makes it sound.
But why do you need at all to be in Unstable branch? Why do you need pacman >= 6.0.2-11?
'Cus the switch from svn to git systems is a rather major change, itās not something you can simply expect to have no effect on distros based on arch linux. In my case I eventually hit an installation issue a few days ago that forced me to do a fresh install but I expect that the reason my install of manjaro lasted as long as it did after the switch from svn to git was because I was on the āunstableā branch. Iām sure someone will ask what the install issues were so Iām mention that now, basically nothing I was downloading to install, not even official packages, was actually installing, some were down to being less up to date so I enabled downgrades yet even that didnāt help. I tried fiddling with a lot of settings before I gave up and decided to just bite the bullet and re-install. Now that the ISOs are from after the switch I shouldnāt need to switch back to the āunstableā branch so my system should remain stable this time.
This sounds similar to my issue:
To make it short, those commands fixed it for me:
sudo rm -Rf /var/tmp/pamac/dbs/sync
mkdir -p /var/tmp/pamac/dbs/sync
pamac update -a --force-refresh