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Neo_2854

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Registered: 2019-09-22

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Removing Cache using pacman -Sc causes unknown archive error

I am trying to clear cache using pacman but iam getting following error for packages

Cache directory: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
:: Do you want to remove all other packages from cache? [Y/n] y
removing old packages from cache...
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/cantarell-fonts-1:0.201-1-any.pkg.tar.zst: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/lib32-libjpeg-turbo-2.0.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/libmikmod-3.3.11.1-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/xxhash-0.7.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/gcab-1.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/wavpack-5.2.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/lib32-libva-intel-driver-2.4.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/lib32-libglvnd-1.3.0-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/python-numpy-1.18.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/cifs-utils-6.10-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/libglvnd-1.3.0-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/lib32-e2fsprogs-1.45.5-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/qca-2.2.1-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/glslang-8.13.3559-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/gupnp-1.2.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/python-tensorflow-estimator-2.1.0-1-any.pkg.tar.zst: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/absl-py-0.9.0-1-any.pkg.tar.xz: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/node-gyp-6.1.0-1-any.pkg.tar.zst: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/lib32-libva-2.6.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/faac-1.30-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/intel-media-driver-19.4.0.r-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/libpulse-13.0-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/signon-ui-0.17+20171022-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/xvidcore-1.3.7-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/x264-3:0.159.r2991.1771b55-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/python-h5py-2.10.0-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/libsndfile-1.0.28-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/gssdp-1.2.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/python-keras-preprocessing-1.1.0-3-any.pkg.tar.xz: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ark-19.12.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/libpgm-5.2.122-5-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/python-keras-applications-1.0.8-3-any.pkg.tar.xz: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/python-astor-0.8.1-1-any.pkg.tar.zst: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/noto-fonts-20190926-4-any.pkg.tar.zst: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/python-contextlib2-0.6.0-3-any.pkg.tar.xz: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/lib32-libwebp-1.1.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/python-opt_einsum-3.1.0-1-any.pkg.tar.xz: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/protobuf-3.11.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/libteam-1.30-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/python-gast02-0.2.2-1-any.pkg.tar.xz: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/python-cachecontrol-0.12.6-1-any.pkg.tar.xz: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/python-protobuf-3.11.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/pulseaudio-13.0-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/libaec-1.0.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/libwebp-1.1.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/python-tensorflow-2.1.0-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/lib32-libmikmod-3.3.11.1-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/libplacebo-1.21.0-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/python-wrapt-1.12.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/hdf5-1.10.5-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/shaderc-2019.0-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst: Unrecognized archive format

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Re: Removing Cache using pacman -Sc causes unknown archive error

Please edit your post to include code tags.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … s_and_code
https://bbs.archlinux.org/help.php#bbcode

What version of libarchive do you have installed?

$ pacman -Qi libarchive

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