Yay not working

General system Pacman & AUR helpers
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i updated mirror list from the endeavouros apps info , now when i run yay i get this

[jp@jp14 ~]$ yay
 -> /var/lib/pacman/db.lck is present.
 -> There may be another Pacman instance running. Waiting...

now what ?? lol

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ok wait nevermind , i removed the “lock”…
sudo rm /var/lib/pacman/db.lck
working now

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Note that eos-update can handle the db lock file for you.
So if you have installed AUR packages too, then

eos-update --aur

can replace updating with yay.

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ok so just to be clear , i have AUR packages , so if i do an update i should use eos-update --aur rather than just yay?
cause someone previously said all one have to do is use yay
PS: sorry if sound dumb , still learning the arch way lol

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yay works fine, but eos-update has more checks and validation. You can use either.

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