linux-firmware >= 20250613.12fe085f-5 upgrade requires manual intervention
Hello, I'm incompetent.
When I ran pacman -Syu, I got an error.
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
(240/240) checking keys in keyring [--------------------------] 100%
(240/240) checking package integrity [--------------------------] 100%
(240/240) loading package files [--------------------------] 100%
(240/240) checking for file conflicts [--------------------------] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
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
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
It seems a conflict has occurred.
When I asked ChatGPT, it suggested running sudo pacman -Syu --ignore=linux-firmware-nvidia, but this is not a permanent solution, and it also suggested deleting the target directory /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad*, but manually modifying pacman managed files is dangerous...
So, I did some research and found the following:
Arch Linux - News: linux-firmware >= 20250613.12fe085f-5 upgrade requires manual intervention
In 20250613.12fe085f-5, the firmware was split into multiple vendor-focused packages. linux-firmware has become an empty package that depends on the default firmware set.
So, I executed it as described above:
sudo pacman -Rdd linux-firmware
sudo pacman -Syu linux-firmware
It worked.