From 3.4.10 already significant pacman key issue existing, forcing us to skip signature verification for many of the packages. Now 3.5.5 makes the situation more frustrating.
- linux-neptune-61-headers still not being migrating from jupiter-main to -rel
- virtualbox-host-dkms build requires libguile-2.2.so.1 while the installed Guile is already 3.0.7
- base-devel even forcing downgrade for most of the packages, corrupting sudo
Well Steam OS is not designed for usage besides gaming so it is nothing to be complained here, but if you rely on pacman heavily like me, better to skip this version and wait for improvement.
Note: to rollback, use Option + Power to select previous OS, then run command ‘sudo rauc status mark-active booted’ as this post.
How do you even use pacman? From my experience every single update overwrites whole system image, and all the packages I installed vanish, as if they were never there. I even had to compile standalone version of Midnight Commander for it to survive updates. Maybe I’m doing something wrong or missing some extra steps to prevent this behavior?
Yeah, honestly using pacman on SteamOS is asking for trouble.
Either stick with flatpak or install a different distro.