Phrakture:
How does manually deleting a package from the cache folder mess up the cache? I can't find any indication of pacman recording whether a package is in the cache folder. I always thought it just checked in the cache first for the package then download when neccessary. Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, could you clarify?
I never said it would mess anything up - but there's always the possibility - what if tomorrow, judd releases a new pacman version which actually records cached packages (for some reason)?
It's just never really a good idea to manually change something which is under control of an application... it works fine, hell, I do it sometimes... I just don't like to suggest it to people (especially those new to arch)
]]>As root, remove this file from the /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ directory. Then run pacman again.
that's a bit of a hack - manually messing with the pacman cache isn't the greatest idea (though it works) - it'd be better to use:
pacman -Scc
to clean out the cache
]]>pacman -Sy kde
It might help
]]>so im sure this is some easy command, but i have no idea 8(
again, thanks in advance.