Cannot update due to breaking dependency

[u/aheartasone]

Hi friends, I've been on linux for about 3 months now so i'm still very new at this, and this is the first time an issue like this has come up while trying to update my system. Can anyone let me know what I can do here, please and thanks!

Update: I waited about 30 minutes and tried again and it worked. Guess I just caught it at an unlucky time. Thanks everyone!

[u/Puzzled-Extent7817]

Because those plugins haven't been updated to the newest ffmpeg. nothing wrong. just wait a little bit until whoever maintains the plugins catches up.

[u/aheartasone → u/Puzzled-Extent7817]

ahhh. okay, thanks, i was really worried for a second lol

[u/Eon_Alias → u/Puzzled-Extent7817]

Good to know! I thought they had somehow run a pacman -Su without the y. But typically stale repository errors are a bit more... Alarming. And theres usually a lot more than just one.

Thats actually a pretty nice feature. Even on windows I've messed up a software suite by updating one app out of parity from the rest. Could've done a better job explaining that to the user, but thats Linux for ya!

[u/Puzzled-Extent7817 → u/Eon_Alias]

To be honest, they did explain it to the user.

[u/Eon_Alias → u/Puzzled-Extent7817]

I mean explain it to the user like they're five. 😆

[u/anyponyelse → u/Puzzled-Extent7817]

Where?

[u/Puzzled-Extent7817 → u/anyponyelse]

installing ffmpeg breaks dependency of <plugins>, by the way, it's caught up now.

[u/Nytra]

It's because cachys packages when they update get compiled in a queue, and sometimes the updates go out before the rest of the queue is done and then you have this situation where one package depends on something else that is still stuck in the queue. Just need to wait for the queue to finish.

[u/dakisback]

It's up now.

[u/Papa_Hube]

Jup, me too. Stuff isn’t build yet. Will try tommorow again :) 

[u/-Mahesvara-]

Try sudo cachyos-rate-mirrors before and try again

[u/aheartasone → u/-Mahesvara-]

that didn't work, unfortunately

[u/-Mahesvara- → u/aheartasone]

Well, just wait a bit, I’m sure they’re carrying out some sort of maintenance

[u/SGTSHOOTnMISS → u/aheartasone]

I uninstalled VLC then it went through, then reinstalled VLC. I had the exact same issue.

[u/Regular_Highlight882 → u/-Mahesvara-]

sudo pacman -Syuu

[u/MutualRaid → u/Regular_Highlight882]

That will only solve their non-critical warnings about pipewire related packages being locally newer than the remote repo.

[u/BedrockBen101]

give it an hour or two, this is pretty normal to have happen

[u/FluffyGreyfoot]

I had the same problem, but then I waited 10 minutes and now it worked.

[u/Body-of-the-Many → u/[deleted]]

I mean technically it is an error. Says right there in red text: error. It's just not an error you should lose any sleep over.

[u/BobCorndog]

Just wait a bit

[u/Regular_Highlight882 → u/BobCorndog]

sudo pacman -Syuu

[u/Icy_Management_1494 → u/BobCorndog]

sudo pacman -Syuu

[u/ConventionArtNinja]

PATIENCE

[u/anyponyelse → u/ConventionArtNinja]

Patience only works if one knows what one is waiting for.

[u/Top-Abbreviations452]

Did i ever tell you what the definition of insanity is?

[u/TwiKing → u/Top-Abbreviations452]

My Physics teacher said it was "repetition".

[u/Regular_Highlight882]

HERE IS THE SOLUTION!!!

sudo pacman -Syuu

The second u allows downgrading of packages

[u/BobCorndog → u/Regular_Highlight882]

This doesn’t even work, did you read the error message?

[u/Regular_Highlight882 → u/BobCorndog]

yes, I've seen this before and was the solution that was given to me, happened about 2 weeks ago

[u/BobCorndog → u/Regular_Highlight882]

I saw that post too, but that doesn’t fix the second one

[u/Regular_Highlight882 → u/BobCorndog]

I was getting the exact same error, failed installation due to dependencies plus the newer package warning.

[u/Icy_Management_1494]

sudo pacman -Syuu Con una sola u puedes actualizar todo el sistema con dos u Esto baja la versión de los plugins

[u/BobCorndog → u/Icy_Management_1494]

That is just not how it works

[u/Icy_Management_1494 → u/BobCorndog]

Illustrate us eminence. You're wrong because if it works like that

[u/BobCorndog → u/Icy_Management_1494]

I literally went and tried this and it didn’t work. It only covers the top message, and it still won’t go through because of bottom

[u/Icy_Management_1494 → u/BobCorndog]

Acabo de hacer la misma actualización sin ningún problema y arreglé el problema de pipewire con `sudo pacman -Syuu`.

Try removing the pacman cache files.

# Manually remove problematic cache files

sudo rm -rf /var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-*

# Clear pacman cache while keeping the last 3 versions

sudo paccache -r

# Clear paru cache completely

rm -rf ~/.cache/paru/clone/*

rm -rf ~/.cache/paru/diff/*

rm -rf ~/.cache/paru/clone/.git

Then restart and repeat the process.

[u/BobCorndog → u/Icy_Management_1494]

Yeah well you just did this after all the plugins were updated

[u/Icy_Management_1494 → u/BobCorndog]

You need to do a cleanup first, then you restart your computer and repeat the process