01-12-2021, 05:22 PM
(01-12-2021, 02:32 PM)Quanifi Wrote: Daniel, thanks for your contributions to the Pinebook Pro forum. I am trying to update to Debian from Manjaro and I'm getting and error when trying to do the install. Says: "error: could not lock database; file exists, if you are sure a package manager is not already running, you can remove /vsr/lib/pacman/db/lck"
ANy suggestions to get this installed....???
The source of this message is https://github.com/daniel-thompson/pineb...debian#L43, where the script tries to install the packages necessary to bootstrap Debian, and it uses `pacman` to do so. As to what to do about it - the error message you quoted pretty much laid out everything for you already. Check if there are any instances of `pacman` running, and if there are none - remove the file/dir it mentions, re-run the script, ..., profit.
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