Requires "debtap -u" as root, but even after used, refuses actions.

[SnivySquid65]

I try to install the package...

$ debtap <package>
Error: You must run at least once "debtap -u" with root privileges (preferably recently), before running this script

So I run debtap -u as root, with sudo, as user as well... Success.
I try again...
Error: You must run at least once "debtap -u" with root privileges (preferably recently), before running this script

[nasko]

I'm experiencing the same issue. This is the output from fastfetch -c all for my system info: https://gist.github.com/nasko/228e6fa0e4bc02221d44eaa30112ca56

sudo debtap -u
==> Synchronizing pkgfile database...
:: Updating 3 repos...
  core is up to date
  extra is up to date
  multilib is up to date
==> Synchronizing debtap database...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 13.5M  100 13.5M    0     0  95.0M      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 95.2M
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  106k  100  106k    0     0  6049k      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 6252k
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  199k  100  199k    0     0  9954k      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 10.2M
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 49.8M  100 49.8M    0     0  47.2M      0  0:00:01  0:00:01 --:--:-- 47.2M
==> Downloading latest virtual packages list...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
100 14118  100 14118    0     0  36488      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 40689
==> Downloading latest AUR packages list...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  441k  100  441k    0     0  1229k      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 1229k
==> Generating base group packages list...
==> All steps successfully completed!

debtap random.deb
Error: You must run at least once "debtap -u" with root privileges (preferably recently), before running this script

[sergionexus]

I am in the same boat.

[sergionexus]

Ok. As a workarround, I simply clone this repo in a temp directory and edit the 'debtap' script. Search for the 'if' loop that check if debtap is up to date and shows this message and simply delete it. Then copy the modified 'debtap' script into 'Downloads' folder or the folder you have your deb packages into, and run the modified debtap.

./debtap <your package name>.deb

It works.