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ithinkimaj

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Registered: 2024-08-26

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pacman -Syu not installing

Hi,

I installed Arch on my college computer a couple of months ago and didn't touch it till coming back on campus. While trying to update the system (using pacman -Syu) I get a told that there is a corrupt file and whether or not I want to remove it. The error is: error: exiv2: signature from "Caleb Maclennan <alerque@archlinux.org>" is unknown trust
:: File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/exiv2-0.28.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)).

Whether or not I type in Y or n, the update stops due to corrupted packages. Any insight would be helpful.

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: pacman -Syu not installing

You most likely need to upgrade the keyring first `pacman -Sy archlinux-keyring`.  Note that this is one of the few (perhaps the only) time that using the -Sy flag is justified.  As soon as that completes, then complete the system upgrade `pacman -Su`.

If that fails, please post the complete command and output including any error here (in code tags).

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