If someone informed could spend a little bit of time to tell me how to deal with this message I’ve been getting lately when I update the system, it would be much appreciated.
What I tried :
A reply to this post informed me that it means that “another process is running.”
The suggested command returns this :
sudo rm /var/lib/pacman/db.lck
[sudo] password for jorgecpd:
rm: cannot remove ‘/var/lib/pacman/db.lck’: No such file or directory
I didn’t try the other command, because in the end I do not know what I am doing.
What’s the correct way of dealing with this? What do you need to know in order to answer this?
check if you have the db.lck in this location: /var/tmp/pamac/dbs/db.lck
if yes delete it
I found the file using Kfind. I deleted it, and now Pamac is pulling 2 Gb of updates and removing a lot of python packages I had to install for Qgis, grass and saga (tools for Qgis). I hope nothing breaks!