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Various issues relating to the download and installation of software packages from the Manjaro repositories are dealt with here. | Various issues relating to the download and installation of software packages from the Manjaro repositories are dealt with here. | ||
== "Unrecognized archive format" Error == | |||
It has ocurred more than once, an update is issuing these messages in a seemingly never ending stream. | |||
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db: Unrecognized archive format | |||
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format | |||
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/community.db: Unrecognized archive format | |||
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/multilib.db: Unrecognized archive format | |||
The error relates to a mismatch in the information contained in the db files at the mentioned location and the db files at the first mirror in your mirrorlist. | |||
While it sometimes is possible to fix the issue simply by deleting the files and the running a pacman update it far from every time. | |||
=== One recipe for fixing this === | |||
It is mandatory to ensure that the keyrings is current. | |||
'''You will have to find the correct names by looking at''' | |||
Browse [http://repo.stdout.net/manjaro/pool/overlay repo.stdout.net/manjaro/pool/overlay] for the current manjaro-keyring | |||
and | |||
Browse [http://repo.stdout.net/manjaro/pool/sync repo.stdout.net/manjaro/pool/sync] for the current archlinux-keyring | |||
'''Replace yyyymmdd and x with the info found at the above links''' | |||
sudo pacman -U http://repo.stdout.net/manjaro/pool/overlay/manjaro-keyring-yyyymmdd-x-any.pkg.tar.xz | |||
sudo pacman -U http://repo.stdout.net/manjaro/pool/sync/archlinux-keyring-yyyymmdd-x-any.pkg.tar.xz | |||
'''Remove your faulty databases''' | |||
sudo rm -f /var/lib/pacman/sync/* | |||
'''Refresh the databases''' | |||
sudo pacman -Sy | |||
'''And finally run a full system update''' | |||
sudo pacman -Syu | |||
== "Unable to lock database" Error == | == "Unable to lock database" Error == | ||