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Arch Linux gives you an Firmware error, while running full system upgrade

in Categories: Arch Linux, Firmware, Package manager.

We noticed this error at June 2025, when we ran the command sudo pacman -Syu. It gives you the following error.

error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
linux-firmware-nvidia: /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad103 exists in filesystem
linux-firmware-nvidia: /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad104 exists in filesystem
linux-firmware-nvidia: /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad106 exists in filesystem
linux-firmware-nvidia: /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad107 exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

So the way to fix this is to remove and re-install the linux-firmware package.

sudo pacman -Rdd linux-firmware
sudo pacman -Syu linux-firmware

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