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Help out a noob? Garuda Dr460nized (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi, brand new linux noob and am having issues right off the bat.

I've just installed Garuda Dr460nized edition on my Legion laptop, fresh install (no dual boot), run the updater, installed a few apps and first thing I see is a little warning that tells me I need to merge pacdiff files and the file affected is mirrorlist.pacnew.

Do a little reading, get the general gist of what I'm supposed to do, then use the distro bundled software (Kompare) to merge all differences, save, reboot. BUT, the warning it still there, and now, when I go back into kompare, it tells me the two files are identical, plus there seem to be a bunch a graphical bugs now that weren't there before I merged the files.

Very confused as to why this file, which just seems to be a list of various website mirrors, would cause graphical issues but like I said, I'm brand new to this, but determined to learn from my mistakes.

Can anyone explain what I've done wrong? I can't seem to undo the changes now.

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[–] Unquote0270 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

sudo pacdiff.

If you leave the pacnew files there you will always get this message. Use pacdiff to review the differences and what to do about the files.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Omg. It was that easy! Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

The mirrorlist is a configuration file listing servers that updates can get pulled in from.

When a package update is installed that contains a configuration file, it will not overwrite the old file but be installed with a pacnew extension so that you can merge the files (like you did). It will keep complaining at you until you remove the pacnew file, which is fine to do after you have merged successfully.

The graphical issues are probably due to something else that happened during the update.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I know nothing about Garuda specifics but it seems you have forgot to delete the pacnew file after doing the mods to the mirror list, hence still getting a warning that a pacnew is present. The graphical bugs are probably unrelated to the pacnew issue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeh, that's fixed it. Thanks. Strangely, the bugs I was experiencing lad night also seem to have resolved themselves.