Unable to install the plasma package group, yay/pacman gives me errors

[jonathon]

@BlastOfMihh

exists in filesystem

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

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…

@BlastOfMihh

ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libkcm_firewall_core.so is empty, not checked.

This either means it’s a symlink or the file has been truncated (0 bytes). If it’s a 0-byte file then you ran out of disk space and/or your filesystem has become corrupted at some point.