"Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Jan Alexander Steffens" <[email protected]> wrote:
> With `20250613.12fe085f-5`, we split our firmware into several vendor-focused > packages. `linux-firmware` is now an empty package depending on our default > set of firmware. > > Unfortunately, this coincided with upstream reorganizing the symlink layout > of the NVIDIA firmware, resulting in a situation that Pacman cannot handle. > When attempting to upgrade from `20250508.788aadc8-2` or earlier, you will > see the following errors: > > linux-firmware-nvidia: /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad103 exists in filesystem > linux-firmware-nvidia: /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad104 exists in filesystem > linux-firmware-nvidia: /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad106 exists in filesystem > linux-firmware-nvidia: /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad107 exists in filesystem > > To progress with the system upgrade, first remove `linux-firmware`, then > reinstall it as part of the upgrade: > > # pacman -Rdd linux-firmware > # pacman -Syu linux-firmware > > URL: > https://archlinux.org/news/linux-firmware-2025061312fe085f-5-upgrade-requires-manual-intervention/ What I see now in http://archlinux.org , not in https://archlinux.org/news/linux-firmware-2025061312fe085f-5-upgrade-requires-manual-intervention/ , only in arch-linux home page, is # pacman -Rdd linux-firmware # pacman -Syu linux-firmware That is, a concatenation of the two suggested commands into a single line. Should that be fixed? -- u34
