Cannot upgrade Archlinux (pacman -Syu not working)
I am running sudo pacman -Syu on my Archlinux and I am getting the following:
cristian@localhost:~$ sudo pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
multilib is up to date
xenlism-arch is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: package-query: requires pacman<4.3
What will be the solution to fix this?
UPDATE
I have tried both solutions sugested by @jham. I have completely removed yaourt and package-query. At pacman -Qi pacman at 'required by' I have none. I also commented multilib and xenlism-arch from pacman.conf. When I do pacman -Syu I get the following:
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
(244/244) checking keys in keyring [###################################] 100%
(244/244) checking package integrity [###################################] 100%
error: confuse: signature from "Thorsten Töpper <[email protected]>" is unknown trust
:: File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/confuse-2.8-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)).
Do you want to delete it? [Y/n]
error: failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
Answer
I just had this very same error. The problem seems to be that there are new keys in the archlinux-keyring package, and new packages (confuse) signed with those keys. Since both packages are updated in the same transaction, well the new keys cannot be used until the update is finished, but the transaction will not start until the packages are checked...
The solution would be to update the archlinux-keyring by itself:
pacman -S archlinux-keyring
And then do the rest:
pacman -Su
If that fails, you could try running through the keys manually, with:
pacman-key --populate
but usually, it is not necessary.