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Problems with Arch upgrade (feddit.uk)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I’ve been using Arch for just over a year on my older Dell laptop, and have been regularly running sudo pacman -Syu but not once have I had a problem or anything break. What am I doing wrong?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

Try run reflector

run0 reflector -l 10 -f 5 >> /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Thanks—I am running the zen kernel because I didn’t really understand the question during archinstall, and have added an AUR helper but still no lack of joy.

I’ll definitely give this a go—probably on Friday afternoon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I misunderstood your post. This command I told you is to make things better, not worse haha

If you really wanna make your Arch unstable, you may wanna install every single package with pacman -Sy <packagename>

Also maybe you wanna install everything from AUR

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

lol! There’s such a mix of people being genuinely helpful and people telling me the joke is past its sell-by date. But I hadn’t come across reflector before and will definitely give it a go—thanks :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Please don't run arbitrary commands just because someone on the Internet told you to use them.

The arch wiki will tell you all you need to know and more.

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