[Testing Update] 2025-03-01 - Kernels, Plasma 6.3.2, Cosmic, LibreOffice, Thunderbird

Public service announcement

If your update fails because of a dependency error, icu for example:

error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: installing icu (76.1-1) breaks dependency 'libicui18n.so=75-64' required by electron29

The solution is not to ignore icu. Check the package that is blocking the update; there is a decent chance that it is an orphan and should be removed.

Manjaro Unstable users seem to have largely avoided this issue, but there were several posts on the Arch and EndeavourOS forums where people tried to ignore icu, which can end up breaking pacman.

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