If you are having problems installing or updating software packages on your system, please read through the LQ wiki article linked below. The linked LQ wiki article below also contains some general background about software packages, package managers, and why we use them in Linux. Which is important to understand when troubleshooting problems installing and/or updating packages on your system. It also contains information you will need to provide if you need help troubleshooting such problems.

Software Repo / Package Manager FAQ

Note: If you need help with your problem, please post a new thread rather than posting your package manager related problems/questions in this thread. If you have any content ideas for the wiki article linked above, you may post them to this thread.
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Thanks for the information, it means a lot thanks again.

Attention: jsbjsb001 Would this be suitable ? I don't wish to throw rocks at Manjaro but having-been-there-before, raised the red flag!
Yet, after reading your wiki, how many of the top-dozen distros, do this ?
Its no wonder why most forums are over-run by 'newbies' ;>)
---------------delete accordingly-------thank you.


Recently installed Manjaro (distrowatch #4) which is based on ARCH Linux (distrowatch #61).

Now we discovered that Manjaro cannot process a device-driver from a major manufacturer.
The difficulty being, there is no software to load the manufacturer's-device-driver to the system.
Their explanation is to install ARCH, then use their "AUR"-private-drivers-library.

There is a ARCH convert-program "DEBTAP" to re-format scanner.DEB (example) to scanner.arch.
Once that is made available in their private repository, then Manjaro users (Me) can use it.

We posted to a support site, but they simply cannot support anything beyond the ARCH catalog.

Now that its explained, is there software, or a magician, that may help me with this problem ?
Otherwise, I'll revert back to old MINT and old LITE which can use "DEB" drivers.

Note: Very Few distros are campatible with Apple's MAC-OS and their APFS file system.
Generally speaking, any Debian-based distro higher than version 20 need not apply.
Thats why I tried Manjaro. It co-exists with APFS, with no known problems.

Comments are welcomed. Solutions are rewarded.