Hi all, I seem to be unable to update pacman. Everytime I try to, it tells me to exit MSYS2, and after I open it again, it again wants to update it.
I started with wanting to install base-devel for all the autoconf tools, etcetera. So first I check theres no outstanding updates: Maxim@DESKTOP-SQ73J4P MINGW64 ~ $ pacman -Syu :: Synchronising package databases... mingw32 is up to date mingw64 is up to date msys is up to date :: Starting core system upgrade... there is nothing to do :: Starting full system upgrade... there is nothing to do Ok, now lets install base-devel: Maxim@DESKTOP-SQ73J4P MINGW64 ~ $ pacman -Syu base-devel :: Synchronising package databases... mingw32 is up to date mingw64 is up to date msys is up to date :: There are 58 members in group base-devel: :: Repository msys 1) asciidoc 2) autoconf 3) autoconf2.13 4) autogen 5) automake-wrapper 6) automake1.10 7) automake1.11 8) automake1.12 9) automake1.13 10) automake1.14 11) automake1.15 12) automake1.16 13) automake1.6 14) automake1.7 15) automake1.8 16) automake1.9 17) bison 18) btyacc 19) diffstat 20) diffutils 21) dos2unix 22) file 23) flex 24) gawk 25) gdb 26) gettext 27) gettext-devel 28) gperf 29) grep 30) groff 31) help2man 32) intltool 33) lemon 34) libtool 35) libunrar 36) libunrar-devel 37) m4 38) make 39) man-db 40) pacman 41) pactoys-git 42) patch 43) patchutils 44) perl 45) pkg-config 46) pkgfile 47) quilt 48) rcs 49) reflex 50) scons 51) sed 52) swig 53) texinfo 54) texinfo-tex 55) ttyrec 56) unrar 57) wget 58) xmlto Enter a selection (default=all): Ok, I press enter leaving it blank so I install all. But notice that pacman is in the list (index 40). Then I get the following: warning: file-5.38-3 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: flex-2.6.4-1 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: gawk-5.1.0-1 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: gettext-0.19.8.1-1 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: grep-3.0-2 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: m4-1.4.18-2 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: pacman-5.2.1-6 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: pactoys-git-r2.07ca37f-1 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: perl-5.30.2-1 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: pkgfile-21-1 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: sed-4.8-1 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: ttyrec-1.0.8-2 is up to date -- reinstalling warning: wget-1.20.3-1 is up to date -- reinstalling :: Starting core system upgrade... warning: terminate other MSYS2 programs before proceeding resolving dependencies... looking for conflicting packages... Packages (1) pacman-5.2.1-6 Total Installed Size: 37.74 MiB Net Upgrade Size: 0.00 MiB :: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] Y Ok, I enter Y and press enter... Packages (1) pacman-5.2.1-6 Total Installed Size: 37.74 MiB Net Upgrade Size: 0.00 MiB :: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] Y (1/1) checking keys in keyring [######################] 100% (1/1) checking package integrity [######################] 100% (1/1) loading package files [######################] 100% (1/1) checking for file conflicts [######################] 100% (1/1) checking available disk space [######################] 100% :: Processing package changes... (1/1) reinstalling pacman [######################] 100% warning: terminate MSYS2 without returning to shell and check for updates again warning: for example close your terminal window instead of calling exit Ok, sure. I hit ALT+F4 to close the MSYS2 window. I get a warning that "Warning: PID 9665 pacman -Syu base-devel" are still running, but I just press ok. When I re-open the shell, I can only restart the same process. It starts trying to update pacman, and then tells me to quit. I'm very new to pacman and MSYS2 (I've only ever used pacman in the context of MSYS2), so would appreciate any pointers. I've double checked that it *is* the only MSYS2 window running, and tried pacman -Syuu which is apparently the recommended way to do system upgrades. I've tried it with the MSYS shell and the MINGW64 shell, and get the same result. I also saw that "update-core" is the recommended way to do system upgrades, but when I run it I get Maxim@DESKTOP-SQ73J4P MSYS ~ $ update-core bash: update-core: command not found Best Regards, Maxim
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