2009/7/14 Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
bardo wrote:
2009/7/14 Vincent Van Houtte <vvh@synergylaw.be>:
I had the same problem after installing firefox without updating the whole system. Only core, extra, community in use - no testing...
Your mirror probably synced while the move was in progress, this is called bad luck ;) Anyway, selective upgrades are known to break the system, and this has been underlined recently, specifically related to this move.
Nope - he went "pacman -Sy firefox" which pulled in new libraries (due to versioned deps) but did not pull in all the other packages that were needed. "pacman -Syu" is the only good way to do a "pacman -Sy"...
Again, I know I have to keep my Archlinux-systems up to date, but I didn't have the time to completely update that particular pc, still wanting to update firefox since my grandfather *only* uses firefox on his computer. I just didn't know pacman didn't handle all dependencies for me and I thought upgrading a simple webbrowser would be safe.