Arch Linux Users Urged to Update to Pacman 5.0.1 Before April 23, 2016

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Marius Nestor
Mar 27, 2016

Allan McRae urges all users of the Arch Linux operating system to update their systems, in particular, the Pacman package manager, to the latest available version (e.g. 5.0.1 at the moment of writing this article), before the date of April 23, 2016, due to the implementation of transactional hooks in Pacman 5.0.

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Marius Nestor

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