"Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Jan Alexander Steffens" <arch-announce@lists.archlinux.org> 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-require...

What I see now in http://archlinux.org , not in https://archlinux.org/news/linux-firmware-2025061312fe085f-5-upgrade-require... , 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