When opening the program 'Add/Remove Software', I get an error that states, "Launching Add/Remove Software (Failed) Remote Peer Disconnected"

Whenever I attempt to open the application Add/Remove Software it presents the error from the title in the bottom corner of the screen with a red x.

I believe I installed Pamac using the yay command. I’ve been digging for a solution and I found a thread that was talking around it for another Arch Linux Distro. I’m not sure if the issue is distro specific. I’m not even sure I understand what’s causing the problem. Any help is deeply appreciated.

Welcome to the community @BilboBatten :waving_hand::smiley: :enos_flag:

I’ve not personally used pamac, but the first thing I’d check, is whether you’ve performed a full system update? The error you’ve shared would seem to suggest a partial update.

To update everything, you could run:

eos-update --yay

Once that completes, restart, then try again?

Thank you very much. I was just using yay before for updates. Thanks for showing me this method.

yay is also able to update your official Arch packages, and AUR packages.

yay

Simply running yay has a similar scope of work as eos-update --yay.

The reason I recommend eos-update usually though, is it includes a couple of extra little steps, such as handling the database lock file and keyring updates.