I run Arch which Manjaro is a derivative of, but I can't say I've seen an update operation try and remove a package before (unless I've just been oblivious to it these last 13 years), maybe it's trying to do something aside from a `pacman -Syu`. You could try this in a terminal and see what it is proposing to do and I doubt you'll see it trying to remove anything in order to update your packages.
Hope that helps. You can choose "no" after running that if you are not happy with what it is proposing to do. -- Jonathan Steel On Mon 24 Mar 2025 at 21:25, Iain via Peterboro wrote: > Running Manjaro on a rolling release for a number of years on both desktop > and laptops with no problems. When attempting a recent update on my desktop > I get the following message as it attempts to synchronise the packages: > > "could not satisfy dependencies: > > - removing lib32-libffi breaks dependency 'lib32-libffi' required by > lib32-glib2 > > - removing lib32-pcre2 breaks dependency 'lib32-pcre2' required by > lib32-glib2 > > - removing lib32-libffi breaks dependency 'libffi.so=8-32' required by > lib32-glib2" > > I don't really understand what the issue is and have not found anything on > the Manjaro Forum but then I am not sure what I should be looking for. > > The same update installed on my laptop without a problem and I am not sure > what difference there could be between them except desktop is an Intel > processor and the laptop is an AMD. At bootup I get 3 lines about no irq > handlers whereas I only get one message line on the laptop but these have > always been there from day one and the systems have worked well for 2-3 > years without a problem so I cannot think that has any relevance. > > Any ideas? > > Iain -- Peterboro mailing list Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
