Can't update or install software
11-28-2021, 10:05 PM
I had a problem updating my PP Beta manjero and noticed an error message "could not lock database".
There was a post in this forum that I remembered mentioned a file used as a lock, I located it, and renamed:
mv /var/lib/pacman/db.lck /var/lib/pacman/dbBU.lck
and then executed
sudo pacman -Syu
and my update ran smooth as silk!
There was a post in this forum that I remembered mentioned a file used as a lock, I located it, and renamed:
mv /var/lib/pacman/db.lck /var/lib/pacman/dbBU.lck
and then executed
sudo pacman -Syu
and my update ran smooth as silk!