How to fix pamac-aur / pamac-aur-git empty list on start

[ricklinux]

Has anyone tried this fix?

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pamac-aur/

[JR29]

it works : sudo downgrade archlinux-appstream-data 20200103

[ricklinux]

Ya…i know the downgrade works. I was talking about the comands to overwrite the .xml.gz file. Or does it do the same thing as downgrading?

[JR29]

it also works

[JR29]

[manuel]

A simple workaround is to edit the file /usr/share/app-info/xmls/community.xml.gz at line 51025.
The following commands should do it (but be extra careful not to change the quote characters!):

su
cd /usr/share/app-info/xmls
gunzip community.xml.gz
sed -i community.xml -e 's|[<]em>not[<]/em>|*not*|'
gzip community.xml
exit

Hope this helps.
And if something goes south with the commands above, you can reinstall archlinux-appstream-data.

[FredBezies]

The real fix will be a new version of archlinux-appstream-data or a workaround added to pamac code.