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no package updates SOLVED

Ok so I tried to clean the system using Stacer  :o  :P
Now no updates  ::)  :-[

Tried the usual suggestions no luck  >:(

Re: no package updates

Reply #1 –
Without more details we can only offer you the Troubleshooting section in our wiki.

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Re: no package updates

Reply #2 –
Sure, why not. Tried all of them ,have done them before I think though.
So, installed and uninstalled packages all show, they can be installed or reinstalled.

Okay, have tried all suggestions I could find so will just leave it and see.

Re: no package updates

Reply #3 –
Quote from: coyotl – on
So, installed and uninstalled packages all show, they can be installed or reinstalled.
I'm not sure what that tool does (myself being a guilty as charged user of bleachbit alongside another cleanup script), but this must mean it didn't touch /var/lib/pacman/local where the package info resides. You can try reinstalling pacman itself first. Of course check pacman.conf. I assume no other error appears on updating and it only says nothing to do.
If that tool cleaned some caches wrongly in /var/lib/pacman/sync, try deleting that folder altogether. (ONLY delete sync!!).
 

Re: no package updates

Reply #4 –
Ok tried this (and tried installing a static pacman but that build failed). It created a new pacman.conf. Still same update behavior.
Edit: fixed now. Not sure exactly what helped, last thing I did was wipe the mirror list, more or less accidentally with Reflector so had to load mirrors again.
Did all the usual steps.

Stacer is pretty awesome for freeing disk space. I had an installation that was filling up the root partition (disk space warning in Cinnamon at every large package update), now it shows 14 gb free

Re: no package updates SOLVED

Reply #5 –
Quote from: coyotl – on
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Stacer is pretty awesome for freeing disk space. I had an installation that was filling up the root partition (disk space warning in Cinnamon at every large package update), now it shows 14 gb free
I regularly run:
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sudo pacman -Scc
and I also remove orphaned packages:
sudo pacman -Rs $(pacman -Qdtq)

From time to time I run a small script:
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#!/bin/bash
rm -R ~/.cache ~/.local/share/baloo
eval $@ 
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; 
then 
    echo "$CMD executed successfully" 
else 
    echo "$CMD terminated unsuccessfully" 
fi


And to see what's happening in my scores, I use filelight or baobab :
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pacman -Q filelight baobab
filelight 25.08.1-1
baobab 49.0-1