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Pamac Appstream not Working

Hello, I know that Pamac is from the Universe repo and is, thus, technically unsupported, but the package itself doesn't seem to be properly configured. When launching the application, the appstream data seems to not be loading properly. So, I can still install and remove packages, but it makes the application more cumbersome. Also, it starts up with a package not found page, which is a bit annoying. I don't actually know off of the top of my head how this should be fixed, but I'm willing to do some digging if that's required.

Thanks!

Re: Pamac Appstream not Working

Reply #1 –
Install aur/archlinux-appstream-data-pamac package.

It conflicts with world/archlinux-appstream-data package.  Accept to remove the latter, when prompted:
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looking for conflicting packages...
:: archlinux-appstream-data-pamac and archlinux-appstream-data are in conflict. Remove archlinux-appstream-data? [y/N] y
...

Re: Pamac Appstream not Working

Reply #2 –
It worked, thanks!

I still think this should be the case for the distribution package, though. Is there a better way I can report this as a bug?

Re: Pamac Appstream not Working

Reply #3 –
Quote from: TrueTechie – on
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I still think this should be the case for the distribution package, though...

I agree.  As pamac was recently removed from official repos and moved to unofficial [universe], it probably gets less attention from maintainers.

yaourt(ix) is a similar example.  It's available from [universe], but requires package-query to work.  package-query is available only from AUR.

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$ pactree --depth 1 yaourtix
yaourtix
├─package-query provides package-query>=1.10
└─pacman provides pacman>=5.2
$ 

$ yaourt -Ss package-query
aur/package-query 1.12-1 [installed] (1160) (0.60)
    Query ALPM and AUR
aur/package-query-git 1.12.r0.g840a000-1 (149) (0.00)
    Query ALPM and AUR
$