Sometimes it happens that package maintainers are slow and you’ve deleted the installed files manually and replaced them with current files.
Example Android Studio (android-studio).
You tried to do a upgrade because it signaled there was a newer version available.
When a program has an self-upgrade feature you don’t really need a package manager anymore, right?
So in my case I have sudo rm -rf /opt/android-studio and downloaded the current files and extracted into /opt/android-studio. But it’s now 2 weeks later and I’m trying to upgrade my system and android-studio doesn’t want to install.
I’m removing the package from the pacman package registry or database and managing Android Studio upgrades manually from now on.
Solution
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pacman -R --dbonly <package name> |