On 04/11/2012 09:49 AM, Madhurya Kakati wrote:
Hi, I am unable to update my system. I guess this problem has occurred to me before but unfortunately I forgot how to get around it.
[papul@archlinux ~]$ sudo pacman -Su Password: :: The following packages should be upgraded first : pacman :: Do you want to cancel the current operation :: and upgrade these packages now? [Y/n] y
resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... :: gcc-libs and gcc-libs-multilib are in conflict. Remove gcc-libs-multilib? [y/N] y error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: gcc-multilib: requires gcc-libs-multilib=4.7.0-3
I just ran into the same issue. All I did was just install pacman manually not through the update process pacman -S pacman It did not give the complaint about gcc doing it this way then re-did pacman -Syu finished update and all is well again. HTH