404 error on pacman update

[gorki]

Updating pacman -Syu gives this error:

error: failed retrieving file 'archlabs_repo.db' from archlabs.github.io : The requested URL returned error: 404 archlabs_repo

and then it proceeds to update as normal.

What’s the fix?

[Negata]

I think it’s just a temporary error on your Internet connection. That’s why it then reloads the repository smoothly. Did it happen to you again?

[gorki]

Happens every time since a week or two ago.

[altman]

Wonder if it can be of any help here.

[Solved! Thank you!] Broken updates?!?

Hello everyone here. I humbly request your help as I’m a newbie when it comes to Arch (your distro is my first taste in it). Following the last update, I kept reading this message in the PACLI terminal: “error: archlabs_repo: signature from “Nathaniel Maia natemaia10@gmail.com” is unknown trust error: failed to update archlabs_repo (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature)) error: database ‘archlabs_repo’ is not valid (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))” . Googled that my…

Edit, also have a look here;

Problems with updates

Gee, usually it happens to me !

[Dobbie03]

Update your pacman.conf to show

[archlabs_repo]
Server = https://bitbucket.org/archlabslinux/archlabs_repo/raw/master/$arch
Server = https://sourceforge.net/projects/archlabs-repo/files/archlabs_repo/$arch

What is happening there is that pacman is attempting to update the archlabs packages via GitHub, as we have moved to BitBucket pacman is getting a 404. It is falling back to Sourceforge which is the alternative mirror.

The above is the new repo home.

[altman]

Good call in there @Dobbie03

[gorki]

That fixed it. Thank you.

[Dobbie03]

Cool, can you mark the thread solved please.

[altman]

Glad that it got fixed there @gorki

[Dobbie03]

@gorki don’t worry I’ll mark it solved. Cheers

[katje2]

error: failed retrieving file ‘archlabs_repo.db’ from archlabs.github.io

That fixed the problem Thank you!