Vscode.db can't be downloaded

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Whenever I try to download an app using pacman, I get this:

sudo pacman -S vlc                                                                                   ✔ 
[sudo] password for calvino: 
warning: database file for 'vscode' does not exist (use '-Sy' to download)
:: Some packages should be upgraded first...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not find database)

error: failed to prepare transaction (could not find database)

And here’s my neofetch:

██████████████████  ████████   calvino@calvin-dx4860 
██████████████████  ████████   --------------------- 
██████████████████  ████████   OS: Manjaro Linux x86_64 
██████████████████  ████████   Host: DX4860 
████████            ████████   Kernel: 6.1.22-1-MANJARO 
████████  ████████  ████████   Uptime: 40 mins 
████████  ████████  ████████   Packages: 1367 (pacman), 20 (flatpak) 
████████  ████████  ████████   Shell: bash 5.1.16 
████████  ████████  ████████   Resolution: 1920x1080 
████████  ████████  ████████   DE: Plasma 5.27.3 
████████  ████████  ████████   WM: KWin 
████████  ████████  ████████   Theme: [Plasma], Breeze [GTK2/3] 
████████  ████████  ████████   Icons: [Plasma], breeze [GTK2/3] 
████████  ████████  ████████   Terminal: konsole 
                               CPU: Intel i5-2300 (4) @ 3.100GHz 
                               GPU: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family 
                               Memory: 4803MiB / 15911MiB

Can someone help with this?

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Hullo,

Always be fully synced before installing packages.

Arch Wiki - Partial upgrades are unsupported

You are even being warned.

So … just get in the habit of passing the full sync/upgrade command when installing:

sudo pacman -Syu vlc

PS.
Given your current state … you may want to sort mirrors first:

sudo pacman-mirrors -f
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are you sure about that?

sudo pacman -Syu vlc                                                                                 ✔ 
[sudo] password for calvino: 
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
 multilib is up to date
 vscode.db failed to download
error: failed retrieving file 'vscode.db' from packages.microsoft.com : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed to synchronize all databases (failed to retrieve some files)
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Your problem had multiple parts.
The first part was your mirror status, lack of database, etc. that part is fixed now.

This is a different problem.
You seem to have manually added a third party repository.
This is of course unsupported.
I cannot comment on whether it is functioning properly or not.
(you will find your entry somewhere in /etc/pacman.conf or in directory /etc/pacman.conf.d/)

You asked a different question in your original post text than you did in the title. :wink:

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thats also what chatgpt said

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I wouldnt rely on that if I were you.

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true, makes sense

what would that entry be under, i know how to use nano and stuff not tutorial pls

nvm i got it

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You added it in the first place didnt you?
I already pointed out where such edits would normally be made:

If you need step-by-step … then please provide the link created from:

cat /etc/pacman.conf | curl -F 'file=@-' https://0x0.st
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no i got it it works now thxx, ill tell u if anything goes wrong

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Resync/update after the edits and your output should be more clean:

sudo pacman -Syu

PS.
I realize there is another problem.

The communty repo no longer exists.
Given your recent operations you probably know how to handle this.
But it would have also been provided via a pacnew file … so this indicates you may have been ignoring those for some time.
To print your pacnews:

pacdiff -o

For an easy gui to handle them see package manjaro-pacnew-checker

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ok thx!! now i can update my system

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Great. But one more thing. See my edit/PS above. :point_up:

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already saw it, thanks!! :smiley:

ok i have 891 updates to do :skull:

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That … that probably means some good sections of the file system has been augmented from its packaged status.
If they were untended for years I might think there would be a few dozen … but hundreds? …
Thats more likely an outcome of running a downloaded install script that overwrites large numbers of drivers libraries or something.

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yeah, i moved from across the USA lol

no i mean packages

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oh. packages. not pacnews. gotchya. :sweat_smile:
Take note of the bottom as well. ex:

Total Download Size:    2.78 MiB
Total Installed Size:  10.71 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:       0.02 MiB

A lot of the apparent download size is not strictly ‘addition’.
Some upgrades its even a net negative.

PS.
There is the package cache though. Which is kept for easy downgrading.
You can, for example, sweep it to only keep the 2 most recent versions:

paccache -rvk2

And/or to remove all cache of any packages no longer installed:

paccache -rvuk0

A bigger clean operation can be used too, which is also helpful to remove unused repositories:

sudo pacman -Scc

(take care to not remove your whole cache unless you want to)

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alr thx!!

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@calvingamez Welcome to the forum! :wave:

Sorry, what language is that? It’s definitely not English. Please use words, not invented abbreviations.

This is a support forum, not a social network or instant messenger. Note that I have merged your successive replies and fixed your formatting–this time.

Please review the following:

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