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I am using BlackArch Linux. When trying to download a package I get this error:

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

Thanks for helping!

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  • Please edit your question and post the output of for file in core extra community multilib; do file /var/lib/pacman/sync/$file.db; done.
    – terdon ♦
    Jul 22, 2021 at 13:28

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Reset to default
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This issue is caused by a bad domain in the mirror list.

  1. Remove existing sync files 
    sudo rm -R /var/lib/pacman/sync/
  2. Edit your mirror list and move your country mirror to the top of the list (You can use any text editor) 
    sudo gedit /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
  3. Now simply do 
    sudo pacman -Syu
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