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sfabius

Member

Registered: 2007-07-07

Posts: 153

Can't update google-chrome

I'm using yaourt to install google-chrome. It has worked fine in the past and I'm not sure how to fix this:

loading packages...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/local/google-chrome-51.0.2704.84-1/desc: No such file or directory
warning: could not fully load metadata for package google-chrome-51.0.2704.84-1
error: failed to prepare transaction (invalid or corrupted package)

Thanks for any help.

astiak

Member

From: London, UK

Registered: 2010-12-14

Posts: 16

Re: Can't update google-chrome

Seems like database corruption.

Try force installing, can be done safely with this package.

yaourt -S --force google-chrome

Good luck.

eschwartz

Fellow

Registered: 2014-08-08

Posts: 4,097

Re: Can't update google-chrome

That looks like your local installed package database is corrupted. You can probably just reinstall the package with the --force switch.

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