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Error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) (SOLVED)

Posted by Alex On September 24, 2023

When performing updates on Arch Linux and derivative distributions (Manjaro, BlackArch), several checks are performed before directly installing new versions of packages: checking if all necessary dependencies are present checking if there are conflicting packages The previous two checks are performed before the installation files are downloaded. Immediately after downloading the installation files (but, of course, even before installing them),...

Error “TypeError: ‘AURPackageInfo’ does not have attribute ‘submitter’” (SOLVED)

Posted by Alex On December 5, 2022

pikaur is a utility for facilitating the installation and updating of programs from the AUR. You can read more about pikaur in the article “Automatic installation and update of AUR packages”. pikaur's options are similar to pacman, but you don't need to use sudo. For example, updating all packages is done with the following command: pikaur -Syu On my Arch...

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,...

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...

How to completely uninstall a package along with dependencies on Arch Linux (as well as BlackArch and Manjaro)

Posted by Alex On February 18, 2021

This tutorial uses pacman as the package management (uninstallation) program, but you can also use pikaur or yay instead, since the options discussed are the same for all these package managers. Related: Automatic installation and update of AUR packages A typical command to uninstall a program that will remove all package files: sudo pacman -R PACKAGE Indeed it will remove...