I’m not sure where this post belongs . please feel free to move it or let me know where to post it. I just installed XFCE yesterday and I tried to install Firefox with the add or remove program ; also I tried to install SMPlayer ? also “DISKS” . evrything I try to install , the system , add/remove…

Jim.B Thank you for this info. At this very moment I’m doing a fresh install of xfce and I checked it with sha1. So we shall see what happens now.

[image] loimp: evrything I try to install , the system , add/remove also wants to install ceph and now ceph-libs - so I went ahead with the install of ceph-libs but after a lengthy time period it fails and I am unable to install any program at all. [image] [Stable Update] 2022-11-02 - Kerne…

[image] loimp: I just installed XFCE yesterday and I tried to install Firefox with the add or remove program Did you install from a minimal .iso? To the best of my knowledge, firefox should normally already be installed by default in all of the normal images for the official editions. [i…

First, I want to thank , not only you but everyone who has responded to my posts. ok, 1st I removed ceph-libs succesfully. as an experiment I installed both Firefox and SMPlayer - successfully . However , while installing a warning comes up - unable to lock database Failed to synchronize databas…

[image] loimp: I have no idea why Firefox was not installed by default. It indeed is not installed with the Xfce4 minimal .iso although, the default choice on the download page is not the minimal, but the full version I do not know which I installed - but firefox was not included anyway: …

Nachlese- I saw your post about the mirrors and I will refresh them now - etc . . I refreshed the mirrors and installed Shotwell successfully but everytime I install something I still get the warning - unable to lock database Failed to synchronize databases well , I checked the latest download…

[image] loimp: unable to lock database Have you forced the package manager to close while in progress? It usually puts a lock file at the beginning of a transaction in order to avoid concurrent modifications to the installation, and then remove it at the end. It can be forcefully removed if …

Its possible that you have corrupted database files. sudo rm /var/lib/pacman/sync/*.* will remove them, then refresh the database’s to replace them.

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