...Or an alternative solution:

  • download packages, which a normal sudo eopkg upgrade cannot retrieve, using wget [pkgurl] or sudo eopkg fetch [pkgname], on your own computer or any other
  • put them in any folder on your computer
  • install them from local files prior to run an upgrade, using sudo eopkg install [full-path-to-package]
  • run a normal sudo eopkg upgrade

Eopkg won't try to download from mirrors already installed packages.

Not sure, whether or not it's a good workaround, but it works.

Did wig out on me last update after 5 or 6 attempts.
The same thing over and over 6 times.
So I did something I never did before. Why I have never done this before I have no idea. If someone wants to share with me when the right time to do this, please do.
Anyway: sudo eopkg ur
THEN
sudo eopkg up
Perfection.
I took the terminal's advice to 'eopkg --help' and something clicked.

or use a little bash script :check=1;while [[ check -eq 1 ]]; do sudo eopkg up; check=$?; done This repeats the command till its successfully exits.

    Thank you guys after forcing the update process it started to work again!
    But I trampled upon another problem related to eopkg and I don't think it's fixable or if kxstudio guys give us the sorce code

    CorvusRuber More like upgrading and the reason I'm logged in as root because I am upgrading the kernel and other software which is located in the boot partition and to access the boot partition you need to access it as root or the process won't start. yeah usually you would type sudo "command" but I usually log in cause I'm too lazy to type in sudo on every line! 🤣

        Kaizaki Create an alias for the commonly used sudo tasks. It's far safer than accidentally leaving yourself logged in as root and then rm something.

            Kaizaki More like upgrading and the reason I'm logged in as root because I am upgrading the kernel and other software which is located in the boot partition and to access the boot partition you need to access it as root or the process won't start. yeah usually you would type sudo "command" but I usually log in cause I'm too lazy to type in sudo on every line! 🤣

            Loggin in as root is not the same thing as using sudo..... Apart from that, sudo eopkg up is all you need for upgrading. Solus is not Arch, selective upgrades are usually not a very goog idea.

                CorvusRuber I know that but I only login as root when I'm working on many root related stuff for eg. I was updating my applications then I wanted to do some system checks and etc.

                  Justin LOL don't worry!! I've been using linux for 12 Years now and never made that idiotic mistake 🤣.
                  I mean....how do people end up rm ing stuff do they do it accidentally?
                  Cause.....like it never happened to me. 😂

                      Kaizaki Consider yourself lucky. Using root is just generally a bad idea. Each to their own though.

                        Kaizaki And to add some to Justin's, as far as I know, sudo caches your password for some time, so you anyway don't have to type it everytime. But I think you know that 😄

                            #solved how do I tag this as solved?

                              15 days later