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cejsr

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Registered: 2023-10-24

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Plasma Discover (software store) not working [SOLVED]

Error says it's missing backends. I'm brand new to Arch. I know I have pacman and yay working properly. Just not sure about these backends and possibly setting the correct repositories. I'm going to try to insert a screenshot of the error. Thanks for any help.

Last edited by cejsr (2023-10-24 22:25:54)

cejsr

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Registered: 2023-10-24

Posts: 9

Re: Plasma Discover (software store) not working [SOLVED]

Well that didn't work. If anyone sees this and also wants to tell me what I did wrong trying to insert a pic, I'll appreciate that too.

arojas

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Registered: 2011-10-09

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Re: Plasma Discover (software store) not working [SOLVED]

Did you read pacman output and install the necessary optional  dependencies?

cejsr

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Re: Plasma Discover (software store) not working [SOLVED]

Did you read pacman output and install the necessary optional  dependencies?

I used pacman to install a lot of stuff during and after the installation of the OS. I don't recall ever seeing anything about missing dependencies. Could you be a little more specific about what output I'm looking for? Thank you.

cejsr

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Registered: 2023-10-24

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Re: Plasma Discover (software store) not working [SOLVED]

Problem solved. I found an article via ddg that provided the fix.

pacman -S packagekit-qt5 flatpak fwupd

Rebooted and all is well, Now I just need to figure out how to mark this topic as solved. And I'd still like to know what I have to do to post an image.

Thanks,

Ed

V1del

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Re: Plasma Discover (software store) not working [SOLVED]

You'll need to use a file/image hosting site like imgur or so and then link the uploaded picture here, you can't directly attach things here

cejsr

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Registered: 2023-10-24

Posts: 9

Re: Plasma Discover (software store) not working [SOLVED]

You'll need to use a file/image hosting site like imgur or so and then link the uploaded picture here, you can't directly attach things here

Ok. Thank you very much. I appreciate the information.

Ed

SpaceshipOperations

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Registered: 2019-06-24

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Re: Plasma Discover (software store) not working [SOLVED]

FYI, pacman logs all its output in:

/var/log/pacman.log

So in case you ever miss/forget the output of pacman, you can take a look inside this file.

However, if what you missed reading is optional dependencies, you don't need the log. You can view the optional dependencies of any packages using:

$ pacman -Si <package-name>

If you don't know the exact name of the package, you probably can fish it up with a search:

$ pacman -Ss kde discover
extra/discover 5.27.9-1 (plasma)
    KDE and Plasma resources management GUI

Last edited by SpaceshipOperations (2023-10-26 00:22:08)