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sb8623

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Registered: 2018-09-11

Posts: 18

Updating Fails.

During full system upgrade, I face this problem.

sudo pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core                                                                         133.5 KiB   130K/s 00:01 [#############################################################] 100%
 extra                                                                       1709.7 KiB   836K/s 00:02 [#############################################################] 100%
 community                                                                      4.9 MiB  2.26M/s 00:02 [#############################################################] 100%
 multilib-testing                                                             935.0   B  0.00B/s 00:00 [#############################################################] 100%
 multilib                                                                     175.9 KiB   498K/s 00:00 [#############################################################] 100%
 archlinuxfr is up to date
 sublime-text is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
:: Replace geoclue2 with extra/geoclue? [Y/n] y
:: Replace libmariadbclient with extra/mariadb-libs? [Y/n] y
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/local/libreoffice-fresh-6.1.4-1/desc: No such file or directory
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
warning: could not fully load metadata for package libreoffice-fresh-6.1.4-1
error: failed to prepare transaction (invalid or corrupted package)

What can I do to solve the problem. Plz help me out.

WorMzy

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From: Scotland

Registered: 2010-06-16

Posts: 11,845

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Re: Updating Fails.

Some points:
1) Don't pick and choose testing repositories. See the big warning at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Of … positories
2) Don't use archlinuxfr, it is poorly maintained and regularly the source of more breakage
3) Your pacman database is damaged, do you have any idea how that might have happened? To repair the database entry for libreoffice-fresh, reinstall the exact same versioned package with the --dbonly. e.g.

pacman -U --dbonly /var/cache/pacman/pkg/libreoffice-fresh-6.1.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

Then update your system.

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Kartious

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From: UK

Registered: 2013-03-23

Posts: 311

Re: Updating Fails.

First I would look at this section help page with trouble shooting pacman. Do you require the multilib testing repo to be open ? It is expected to get breakages using testing & for the user to have some knowledge on how to fix and repair.

Also Yaourt is not even used in arch anymore so the archlinuxfr repo shouldn't be there and I have no idea what the sublinetext repo is.

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