• Can't update Arch Linux
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I'm fairly new to linux, so I sometimes struggle to diagnose and fix my problems. Any help from arch users would be greatly appreciated. I'm aware of a recent update on Arch that moves binaries from the /bin, /sbin and /usr/sbin directories into /usr/bin (or something to that effect), which causes a problem when updating. Reading through the thread on the arch forums, the various methods of finding packages that should be fixed due to owning files in those directories simply don't work for me, such as: [code]pacman -Qo /bin /sbin /usr/sbin[/code] The error I get are to the effect of "cannot determine ownership of /directory". The problem may be that I haven't updated in several months due to not using that machine. Can anyone suggest things I can try to solve this? Thank you in advance.
I'm not great with arch linux, but I'm guessing you don't have the correct permissions? Are you root user? Also it'd be better to ask this in the linux thread I think
IIRC, I had to do something like this: [code]pacman -Syu --ignore filesystem,bash pacman -S bash pacman -Su[/code] The 'find packages that need fixing' stuff was of no help to me either
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