I have Manjaro version 18.0.4 (Illyria) installed on my laptop (Lenovo Thinkpad T510 — 128 GB SSD). When I want to install a program, pacman tries to update the whole system first, is unable to finish and breaks the OS. Then I have to reinstall the OS all over again. Any time I try to update the system, or refresh databases it can’t finish and breaks the OS. How can I get around this issue?
These are the errors I get when trying to install one program:
Warning: mhwd-nvidia: local (1:418.43-1) is newer than core (460.39-1)
Resolving dependencies…
Checking inter-conflicts…
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: bashrc-manjaro will be installed before its bash dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: harfbuzz will be installed before its freetype2 dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: libglvnd will be installed before its mesa dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: smbclient will be installed before its cifs-utils dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: usbmuxd will be installed before its libimobiledevice dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: lib32-keyutils will be installed before its lib32-krb5 dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: lib32-harfbuzz will be installed before its lib32-freetype2 dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: lib32-mesa will be installed before its lib32-libglvnd dependency
Have you not been updating your computer after every Stable release? On a rolling release distro, delaying updates through multiple cycles can cause issues on your computer.
We are currently on Manjaro 20.2.1. It took me a while to find your release… your Manjaro version is from March 2019…
This driver is from 02/22/19, your computer is VERY out of date.
At this point… you might as well download the newest version of Manjaro and install it. Because there will probably be too many things to fix from over the period of 2 years.
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This is a more than two year old system and no - updates don’t break your system - lack of update will sooner or later.
What you are trying to do is what is called a partial update and is unsupported and the issues that stem from it is unsupported.
Please update your system before you ask for help.