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Error “error: failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package)” (SOLVED)

Posted by Alex On December 7, 2022

When using pacman while updating packages, for example sudo pacman -Syu An error may occur: error: binutils: signature from "Frederik Schwan <frederik.schwan@linux.com>" is unknown trust :: File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/binutils-2.39-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)). Do you want to delete it? [Y/n] If you choose the proposed option – remove an invalid or damaged package – then the update...

Error “error: GPGME error: No data. error: failed to synchronize all databases (unexpected error)” (SOLVED)

Posted by Alex On October 5, 2022

When updating the package cache with the pacman package manager, for example, when running the following command to update package information and update the system: sudo pacman -Syu An error may occur: error: GPGME error: No data :: Synchronizing package databases... core 155.5 KiB 444 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100% extra is up to date community is up to date multilib...

error: blackarch: signature from “Levon ‘noptrix’ Kayan (BlackArch Developer) ” is invalid (SOLVED)

Posted by Alex On August 10, 2022

When trying to update Arch Linux with BlackArch repositories with the command sudo pacman -Syu an error occurred: error: blackarch: signature from "Levon 'noptrix' Kayan (BlackArch Developer) <noptrix@nullsecurity.net>" is invalid The error message says that the signature of one of the BlackArch developers is not valid. To solve this error, just delete the /var/lib/pacman/sync/blackarch.db.sig file: sudo rm /var/lib/pacman/sync/blackarch.db.sig Then run...

How to download a package without installation in Arch Linux and Manjaro. How to download the AUR package source code

Posted by Alex On May 22, 2022

How to download a package with pacman (from standard repositories) To download a package without installing it, use the -w option: sudo pacman -Sw PACKAGE By default, the package will be downloaded to pacman's package cache directory, with the --cachedir option you can specify any other directory to save the package to: sudo pacman -Sw --cachedir DIRECTORY PACKAGE For example,...

“Error: failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package)” (SOLVED)

Posted by Alex On May 2, 2022

When updating or installing packages in Arch Linux, Manjaro and their derivatives, you may encounter the “error: failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package). Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.” issue. Full error log: :: Retrieving packages... libinih-55-2-x86_64 15.4 KiB 385 KiB/s 00:00 [############################################] 100% (40/40) checking keys in keyring [############################################] 100% (40/40) checking package integrity [############################################] 100% error:...

error: failed to synchronize all databases (unable to lock database) (SOLVED)

Posted by Alex On January 14, 2022

When trying to update Arch Linux or a distribution based on it (for example, Manjaro or BlackArch), an error “failed to synchronize all databases (unable to lock database)”" may occur. For example, when entering the command sudo pacman -Syu It can be output: :: Synchronizing package databases... error: failed to synchronize all databases (unable to lock database) This means that...

Error “cannot resolve dependency lib32 (32-bit library)” (SOLVED)

Posted by Alex On September 1, 2021

When installing a package on Arch Linux or a distro derived from it, for example, by running the following command: sudo pacman -S trid an error may occur stating that dependencies could not be resolved. The name of this dependency can contain the number “32” or the string “lib32”, that is, it is a 32-bit package, for example: resolving dependencies......

Error “ruby-bundler: /usr/share/man/man5/gemfile.5.gz exists in filesystem (owned by ruby)” (SOLVED)

Posted by Alex On April 12, 2021

Whenever operating system packages are updated (as well as when new packages are installed), in addition to checking dependencies, package managers also check that there is no file conflict. That is, a package containing files that are already on disk and do not belong to this package will not be updated or installed. During a regular system update (Arch Linux,...

pacman error “warning: failed to retrieve some files” (SOLVED)

Posted by Alex On March 3, 2021

This article focuses on errors that occur due to problems with the mirror list. pacman error “The requested URL returned error: 404” There is a cache for the package manager to work - this cache contains information about existing packages for installation, their versions and download links. To update (or download for the first time) this cache, you need to...

How to view package information in Arch Linux (BlackArch, Manjaro)

Posted by Alex On February 18, 2021

For each package in the system, you can find out such information as: version number, description, developer site, dependencies, recommended dependencies, packages with which there is a conflict, size, etc. The commands described in this post work the same in Arch Linux, as well as all distributions based on it, such as BlackArch, Manjaro and others. If you are interested...