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Wayfly

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Registered: 2023-07-09

Posts: 25

[SOLVED]yay failed:response decoding failed: invalid character '<'

first I am very sorry about it.But I can't solve it , so ask for help,My English is very bad, So if my painting is impolite or have some wrong. please forgive my behavior,and write it on the message,I will sincerely apologize to you,thank you(I'm a novice in linux, So if I don't do well in some aspects,please point it out,thank you)
I install a yay. But yesterday I try to update system 'yay -Syu' ,it say:
1 error occurred:
        * response decoding failed: invalid character '<' looking for beginning of value
if I 'yay aururl "https://aur.archlinux.org/" --save,it report:
-> unable to CreateHandle: could not find or read directory
I tried to find out how to solve it, I although inquire in arch wiki. But I don't know why it don't work. So i tried to reinstall yay.And  restore my system whan yay can work,But it all don't work.
And "journalctl -u yay "is report "-- No entries "
I don't know what do your need.please tell me
I would like to express my sincere gratitude.
Please help me,thank you.

Last edited by Wayfly (2023-08-09 13:50:42)

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Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 14,840

Re: [SOLVED]yay failed:response decoding failed: invalid character '<'

I suggest you stop using yay until you understand how pacman  ,Arch User Repository and makepkg work.

For updating your system, use pacman -Syu , not yay.

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Wayfly

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Registered: 2023-07-09

Posts: 25

Re: [SOLVED]yay failed:response decoding failed: invalid character '<'

thank you very much.

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