Running a fresh arch install and pacman refuses to install certain packages, like when running pacman -Syu. It runs through each mirror and they all throw an error,error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from [mirror] : SSL certificate problem: self-signed certificate
I didn't run into this error on my other machine, pacman just worked out-of-the-box. Did I forget to install something during the install? Thanks.
#pacman - unrecognized archive format
halcyon jackal
raven swan
If you generate a new mirror list does this still happen?
halcyon jackal
I'm not sure how to do that. I know some distros use something like pacman-mirrorlist but that command doesn't exist on mine
raven swan
You can either use reflector (though it may not be installed) to generate one, or grab/generate one from https://archlinux.org/mirrorlist/
halcyon jackal
I take that back
it fixed one problem but caused a new one
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core 29.1 KiB 15.6 KiB/s 00:02 [####################################] 100%
extra 29.1 KiB 335 KiB/s 00:00 [####################################] 100%
community 29.1 KiB 283 KiB/s 00:00 [####################################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/community.db: Unrecognized archive format
there is nothing to do
One site says to remove core.db, extra.db, and community.db and run pacman again. That wouldn't break anything would it?
I don't really have any critically important files on this machine so if I need to reinstall arch because pacman broke then I can reinstall arch
Or at least reboot with a live install
Update: That did not fix it