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karcher

Member

Registered: 2018-01-09

Posts: 140

[SOLVED] pacman update stopped working

Hi all,

I tried to update my packages with:

$ sudo pacman -Syu

and got errors like these:

error: failed retrieving file 'firefox-78.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst' from mirror.ungleich.ch : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed retrieving file 'firefox-78.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst' from mirror.init7.net : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed retrieving file 'firefox-78.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst' from pkg.adfinis-sygroup.ch : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed retrieving file 'firefox-78.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst' from pkg.adfinis-sygroup.ch : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed retrieving file 'firefox-78.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst' from mirror.init7.net : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed retrieving file 'firefox-78.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst' from mirror.puzzle.ch : Protocol "rsync" not supported or disabled in libcurl
error: failed retrieving file 'firefox-78.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst' from mirror.init7.net : Protocol "rsync" not supported or disabled in libcurl
error: failed retrieving file 'firefox-78.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst' from pkg.adfinis-sygroup.ch : Protocol "rsync" not supported or disabled in libcurl
warning: failed to retrieve some files

I tried to update the mirrors list:

$ sudo reflector --verbose --info -c "France" --latest 5 -a 24 -f 5 -n 5 --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

but didn't help.

Then I did:

$ sudo pacman -sudo pacman -Syy

$ sudo pacman -sudo pacman -Syu

Found existing alias for "sudo pacman -Syu". You should use: "pacupg"
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
 multilib is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
 there is nothing to do

the errors are gone but there are updates and pacman does not show them anymore. For example there was an update for linux kernel (linux-5.7.6.arch1-1) although the system is still at v5.7.5.

Any ideas how can I fix it?

Last edited by karcher (2020-07-02 08:59:51)

kilix

Member

Registered: 2020-05-09

Posts: 23

Re: [SOLVED] pacman update stopped working

Hi all,

I tried to update the mirrors list:

$ sudo reflector --verbose --info -c "France" --latest 5 -a 24 -f 5 -n 5 --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

but didn't help.

why dont you go according to arch wiki and use e.g.

reflector --verbose --country France --age 12 --protocol https --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

what is in your mirrorlist?

also, what is this?

 sudo pacman -sudo pacman -Syu 

why don't you use

sudo pacman -Syyu

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Keep it simple, stupid.

karcher

Member

Registered: 2018-01-09

Posts: 140

Re: [SOLVED] pacman update stopped working

Many thanks!
Updating works again!