Pacdiff not working, meld and pacmen. Brand new updated install

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Brand new install of Garuda Dr460nized Gaming. Installed, booted to new install and applied all updates successfully I think. The only thing left is to apply pending .pacmen files. None of the directions work. Meld doesn’t work and none of the pacmen commands work? The how to references an article that is linked in the popup is 4 years old. How about an updated article, seems ridiculous that a 4 year old out of date article is one of the first things you see when updating! By the way love the look of the install!

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Please, follow the template.
Did you reboot after update?

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How did you launch meld for pacdiff?
Try

sudo -E DIFFPROG=meld pacdiff
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That linked article is still valid.

I used it like yesterday.

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Maybe we should also create an wiki article just in case haha.

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Yes I rebooted, actually powered it on this morning and still not working.

╭─ron@Ron in ~ as 🧙 took 5s
[🔴] × sudo -E DIFFPROG=meld pacdiff
[sudo] password for ron:
==> ERROR: Cannot find the meld binary required for viewing differences.

╭─ron@Ron in ~ as 🧙 took 5s
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That means you need to install meld beforehand.

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Yes that article should not be what is pinned.

  1. Install Meld using add\remove software.
  2. Run the command: sudo -E DIFFPROG=meld pacdiff
  3. V = View the differences
  4. M? = run the command that merges the file. sorry forgot what command it was.
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Fixed that for you.

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I see two inform 's :slight_smile:

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Why? It is correct. And in your post, you did not link to this post.

No, just use the terminal. Never use pamac (add\remove software) it’s just a help tool like octopi to search for software.
Most Garuda DE’s have preinstalled meld.

sudo pacman -S meld

Nope, that was a try to fix your problem, if you follow the template and post the garuda-inxi, helpers know where is the problem. KDE use another app for this, but meldis better (just my opinion).

All commands you need are explained in the terminal, when you type pacdiff , it is just an alias in your config.fish

alias | egrep pacdiff
alias pacdiff 'sudo -H DIFFPROG=meld pacdiff'

no need for a double explanation in this post.

Always remember, you are the admin of your system, do not assume that you will be offered bite-sized help for each individual case.

Garuda tries to be beginner-friendly, but it remains an Arch-based distribution where users are not expected to be spoon-fed.

Don’t use the merge function blindly, check the differences.

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