It seems my system no longer recognizes an installed application, I was wondering how to remove the packages if pacman doesn’t see the package(s). When typing the command: protonvpn c -f It attempts to work like normal, however, when running sudo pacman -Qs protonvpn no results come up. When ins…

Package installation error

jonathon August 28, 2020, 4:35pm 2

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[FAQ] Package installation says FILENAME exists in filesystem; “Failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)” Newbie

I can’t install or update a package because I get (something like) this: error: could not prepare transaction error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) libname: /insert/file/name/here exists in filesystem Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. Why is this happening? The package manager, pacman , has detected an unexpected file already exists on disk. By design it will not overwrite files that already exist. This is a design feature, not a flaw - package managers are de…

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