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DynamicallyAdjusted

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Registered: 2022-11-17

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[SOLVED] When upgrading, Pacman tries to download a non existent pkg

Hi there,
When running

sudo pacman -Syu

Pacman ends up trying to download gtk-update-icon-cache-1:4.18.5-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst which seemingly is non existent in any of the repos I have (even though I updated the list from the Arch Linux mirror list web page.

 gtk-update-icon-cache-1:4.18.5-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst failed to download
 Total (681/743)                                            1921.4 MiB  1930 KiB/s 16:59 [###################################################] 100%
error: failed retrieving file 'gtk-update-icon-cache-1:4.18.5-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst' from mirror.dogado.de : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed retrieving file 'gtk-update-icon-cache-1:4.18.5-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst' from mirror.metanet.ch : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed retrieving file 'gtk-update-icon-cache-1:4.18.5-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst' from archmirror.hogwarts.fr : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed retrieving file 'gtk-update-icon-cache-1:4.18.5-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst' from mirror.bakertelekom.fr : The requested URL returned error: 404
error: failed retrieving file 'gtk-update-icon-cache-1:4.18.5-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst' from mirror.clarkson.edu : The requested URL returned error: 404
warning: failed to retrieve some files
error: failed to commit transaction (failed to retrieve some files)

What am I doing wrong?

I think I have to mention that this arch install hasn't been updated since 2022.

Thank you for your help.

Last edited by DynamicallyAdjusted (2025-05-08 00:52:28)

Xephon

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Registered: 2024-12-22

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Re: [SOLVED] When upgrading, Pacman tries to download a non existent pkg

https://archlinux.org/news/cleaning-up- … ositories/

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] When upgrading, Pacman tries to download a non existent pkg

While the repo cleanup might become an issue,  and despite the status, eg. https://mirror.dogado.de/archlinux/extr … kg.tar.zst is indeed 404 but et. http://archlinux.thaller.ws/extra/os/x8 … kg.tar.zst is not

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Mirror … ng_mirrors
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=304532 has a couple of suggestions how to update your mirrorlist.

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DynamicallyAdjusted

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Registered: 2022-11-17

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Re: [SOLVED] When upgrading, Pacman tries to download a non existent pkg

https://archlinux.org/news/cleaning-up- … ositories/

Hi, thank you for your reply. I did come across that information and modified my pacman.conf file accordingly. It only includes [core] and [extra] now.

I'm trying to do incremental updates right now using archive.archlinux.org as in

Server = https://archive.archlinux.org/repos/2024/02/01/$repo/os/$arch

DynamicallyAdjusted

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Registered: 2022-11-17

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Re: [SOLVED] When upgrading, Pacman tries to download a non existent pkg

While the repo cleanup might become an issue,  and despite the status, eg. https://mirror.dogado.de/archlinux/extr … kg.tar.zst is indeed 404 but et. http://archlinux.thaller.ws/extra/os/x8 … kg.tar.zst is not

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Mirror … ng_mirrors
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=304532 has a couple of suggestions how to update your mirrorlist.

Thank you for finding that mirror. After a couple of cache clearing and retrials, it went tip top.

I vaguely remember that I have to mark this post as SOLVED but I can't find where to edit the title. My apologies.

Last edited by DynamicallyAdjusted (2025-05-06 21:38:07)

skunktrader

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Re: [SOLVED] When upgrading, Pacman tries to download a non existent pkg

I vaguely remember that I have to mark this post as SOLVED but I can't find where to edit the title.

Edit your original post in the thread and prepend [Solved]

DynamicallyAdjusted

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Registered: 2022-11-17

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Re: [SOLVED] When upgrading, Pacman tries to download a non existent pkg

I vaguely remember that I have to mark this post as SOLVED but I can't find where to edit the title.

Edit your original post in the thread and prepend [Solved]

Done and done, thank you!