That looks like an unrelated bug in a hook installed by pacaudit. You should report it here: https://github.com/steffenfritz/pacaudit On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 3:52 PM Ralf Mardorf via arch-general < arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2020-02-21 at 14:29 -0500, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: > > paccheck --opt-depends --quiet --recursive > > Thank you for the pointer :), it does the job. > > Btw. when installing it there was an issue: > > [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ sudo pacman -S pacutils > [snip] > (1/1) pacaudit-pre.hook > 2020/02/21 21:46:45 invalid character 'I' looking for beginning of value > error: command failed to execute correctly > [snip] >