On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 4:29 PM, <Nezmer@allurelinux.org> wrote:
error: replacing packages with -U is not supported yet error: you can replace packages manually using -Rd and -U error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies) :: nvidia-utils-beta: conflicts with nvidia-utils It means "nvidia-utils-beta" conflicts and should replace "nvidia-utils". If the beta package was in a repo , pacman would have
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 03:16:02PM +0100, David Houston wrote: prompted you to replace the package.
This smooth replacement procedure is not supported with "pacman -U". So as a workaround , You uninstall the conflicting package without dependency checking and then "pacman -U" the new package .
Just FYI, this limitation of pacman is gone in 3.4 (thanks Nagy!).