Hi all. I am trying to move from Manjaro to Endeavour. But I really love Pamac, so I’m trying to install it. However, I get this error below. The command I used is yay -S pamac-aur
Here’s the end of the error message:
Installing /home/jersten/.cache/yay/pamac-aur-git/src/build_cli/data/completion/_pamac to /home/jersten/.cache/yay/pamac-aur-git/pkg/pamac-aur-git/usr/share/zsh/site-functions
Installing /home/jersten/.cache/yay/pamac-aur-git/src/build_cli/data/completion/pamac.fish to /home/jersten/.cache/yay/pamac-aur-git/pkg/pamac-aur-git/usr/share/fish/vendor_completions.d
Installing /home/jersten/.cache/yay/pamac-aur-git/src/pamac-cli/data/offline-upgrade/pamac-offline-upgrade.service to /home/jersten/.cache/yay/pamac-aur-git/pkg/pamac-aur-git/usr/lib/systemd/system
==> Tidying install…
→ Removing libtool files…
→ Purging unwanted files…
→ Removing static library files…
→ Stripping unneeded symbols from binaries and libraries…
→ Compressing man and info pages…
==> Checking for packaging issues…
==> WARNING: Package contains reference to $srcdir
usr/bin/pamac
usr/bin/pamac-manager
usr/bin/pamac-tray
usr/bin/pamac-installer
usr/lib/libpamac-gtk.so
==> Creating package “pamac-aur-git”…
→ Generating .PKGINFO file…
→ Generating .BUILDINFO file…
→ Generating .MTREE file…
→ Compressing package…
==> Leaving fakeroot environment.
==> Finished making: pamac-aur-git 11.7.2.r0.g71ced27-1 (Wed 02 Apr 2025 10:25:17 PM CDT)
==> Cleaning up…
loading packages…
resolving dependencies…
looking for conflicting packages…
error: unresolvable package conflicts detected
error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
:: pamac-aur-11.7.2-3 and pamac-aur-git-11.7.2.r0.g71ced27-1 are in conflict
→ error installing: [/home/jersten/.cache/yay/pamac-aur/pamac-aur-11.7.2-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst /home/jersten/.cache/yay/pamac-aur-git/pamac-aur-git-11.7.2.r0.g71ced27-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst] - exit status 1
[jersten@jerstenmain ~]$
After searching around I learned that adding -git to the end will make sure I get the latest possible version. So I tried that, and it worked. So the new command was yay -S pamac-aur-git.
It seemed to download and install without any error. The only trouble is, I can’t seem to find it anywhere. It does not appear anywhere in the Launch menu. Sorry I should have said I’m using KDE.
This is normally not the latest “stable” release. with .git you tap directly into the source code with latest commits. The software may not be well tested, may contain bugs and not ready for prime time.
If you want a more stable experience, go with the on,e without .git.
Pamac shows as Add/Remove Sofware (or something similar) in the application menu. If it is not there, log out and log back in or simply reboot.
The command to start it from the terminal is pamac-manager. Test it.
It says “command not found”. So I’m guessing it didn’t really install?
On a more annoying note, it looked like it was going to install OnlyOffice for me. Took about 30 minutes to build. Then it timed out because I left the computer and did something else while I waited. So it didn’t install I guess?
I never knew an install could time out. I already entered the sudo password when I told it to install the program. Seems completely unnecessary to make you do it again, and then time out when it takes 30 freakin’ minutes to build some of this stuff.
I wonder what happened to all those files it built from source? Did they just get deleted or are they still sitting there?
Feeling like I’m off to a bad start with Endeavor.
Well (imo), you went off to a bad start when you decided to install Pamac. Arch is (and Endeavour) terminal centric, installations/upgrades are with pacman, where you can see and interact with warnings issued.
As far as the timeout, sudo has a timeout for security reasons. You can change the configuration, but it is intended for security reasons to be (I think I remember) 5 minutes or so.
Welcome to the forum
Probably you find the packages of the failed install here. Mine is empty at the moment but on the top you will see the path that leads to the files.
If you want to install onlyoffice open a terminal and type the below mentioned command.
yay -Syu onlyoffice-bin
Your system will update all files first and than yay will install only office within minutes.
You get some questions asked but just ignore them and hit the enter key.
I hope not but you would need to learn how package management works in Arch. What’s more you are installing from AUR that needs a bit more acquaintance with the process. Read this and also pay attention to the warning: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Aur
Building packages from AUR, they are mostly under
You can clear it out with the command given before.
Nice I found everything. There’s 2.4 Gb sitting in that file that I need to delete. But for some reason I don’t have permission to delete anything in that file. I also saw a lock on other files. That’s unacceptable on an OS that I’m the administrator of. Is there any way I can globally give myself permission to look into and edit all files?
Sorry about all the newb stuff, it all seems a bit overwhelming at times.
Assuming you have Plasma as a DE, to get administration rights to the mentioned folder you have to open Dolphin in the terminal like this.
dolphin --sudo
You will get a message to install Kio first and if you want to install it (if I remember this all correctly). After installing Kio you should have administration rights.
There is a bit of confusion going on I’m afraid I was refering to the pkg folder where I thought the OP found the files. Had this the other day happening to me whit a broking download that I was not aware of and couldn’t remove it from the cache without password. But you are absolute right about the home directory thing ofcourse.
The now deleted part of their post reveals the cause:
What I decided to try was just run su for installing something.That way if it decides it wants me to enter the password again for that particular installation,it will already have permission.But it’s only on a case by case basis.
No I’m not sure what that means or what it would do.
And they were trying to install AUR packages which build them under home.
But if they choose to delete/hide the more important thing revealing the cause, I don’t know how someone may be able to help.
That is a misconception. You may find a package with is labeled with the suffix *-git but that doesn’t mean that each package has a *-git version. To be more precise *-git labeled packages will be compiled locally as the package isn’t distributed as precompiled binary. Thus, as a further issue which can arise that way, you may have the latest git source code. But that doesn’t mean that the source will compile successfully.
In other words, you don’t want to compile each software package locally. Sometimes building from source is the only option for the latest updates. But most of the time, I would prefer '-bin labeled precompiled binary packages. It’s one of my maintainence routines to check if I really do need '-git packages. As it can really be annoying that there is a build job each time you’re pulling updates.
In addition to that. Pamac might be nice and such. But on Arch and its derivates other than manjaro, its known to cause more harm than being a reliable solution. Octopi is a alternative which is less problematic.
I deleted that because it was inaccurate. As a newb I was confused and all I really did was enter my sudo password when prompted. So the only command I entered regarding that would be:
yay -S Onlyoffice
And then it prompts you for your password. That’s what I was trying to say.
I haven’t yet used the “su” command. If you enter that, it assumes sudo for everything following (until you close the terminal) so you don’t have to enter your password over and over again needlessly. My intention was to use that to install Onlyoffice since it took (roughly) 30 minutes to build. That way when it got to the end, it wouldn’t time out again because I’m not going to sit there and watch the screen for 30 minutes.
But again I haven’t done this yet because I was going to try one member’s suggestion which he said will only take a few minutes to install Onlyoffice
Also manjaro comes with locks on various files, just as I’m seeing here. So I wasn’t surprised to find it. But I forgot exactly how I removed them. IIRC there was a concept of “taking ownership” with a chown command.
