I've installed Manjaro i3 on my system and now I want to install VirtualBox on it.
According to Manjaro's VirtualBox Wiki, I must install virtualbox with this command:
pamac install virtualbox $(pacman -Qsq "^linux" | grep "^linux[0-9]*[-rt]*$" | awk '{print $1"-virtualbox-host-modules"}' ORS=' ')
It gives me an option to choose some optional dependencies, and I choose virtual-guest-iso: Guest Additions CD image as I want to use shared folder later on. But then it throws this error:
Synchronizing package databases...
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
Error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/multilib.db: Unrecognized archive format
Error: Failed to prepare transaction: target not found: virtualbox-guest-iso
If I run it again, it will simply throw this error:
Error: target not found: virtualbox
And now I can't do sudo pacman -Syu no more as it will throw the same error:
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
multilib is up to date
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
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/multilib.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: database 'core' is not valid (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))
error: database 'extra' is not valid (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))
error: database 'community' is not valid (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))
error: database 'multilib' is not valid (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))
:: Starting full system upgrade...
there is nothing to do
Now according to [SOLVED] Unrecognized archive format (core.db,extra.db,etc), I can fix this by recursively removing everything in the /var/lib/pacman/sync directory. Now I can do sudo pacman -Syu just fine.
But if I run the first command to install VirtualBox it will throw the same error and everything repeats.
How can I fix this and install VirtualBox on Manjaro i3?
