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MurzurBepsi

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Registered: 2025-08-03

Posts: 2

When trying to install lutris, it says the filesystem is read only?

When I try installing lutris it says "error: failed to init transaction (unable to lock database)
error: could not lock database: Read-only file system" Why? And how do I solve it?

Succulent of your garden

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From: Majestic kingdom of pot plants

Registered: 2024-02-29

Posts: 1,566

Re: When trying to install lutris, it says the filesystem is read only?

Hi!

Please tell us more. Are you trying to install lutris from the extra repo in arch https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/lutris/ ? Or are you trying to install it using flatpak ? Have you tried to update the pacman database ? I'm assuming that you had done that, but in case you don't, do "sudo pacman -Syu" to update your entire system first. As you said,  are you  having problem to finish the installation of lutris right ?

Last edited by Succulent of your garden (2025-08-03 01:09:47)

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MurzurBepsi

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Registered: 2025-08-03

Posts: 2

Re: When trying to install lutris, it says the filesystem is read only?

Im trying to install using sudo pacman -S lutris

close2zero

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From: Norway

Registered: 2025-07-14

Posts: 65

Re: When trying to install lutris, it says the filesystem is read only?

1. sudo  pacman -Rns lutris (just to be sure)
2 . sudo pacman -Syu (as "Succulent of your garden" mentioned but you didn't answer if you did)
3. sudo pacman -S lutris

Make sure you run sudo pacman -Syu on a regular basis.

Last edited by close2zero (2025-08-03 02:09:13)

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