On Wednesday 17 June 2009 19:04:42 Dan McGee wrote:
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 6:49 PM, David C.
Rankin<drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
DR, List
Here is the situation after the difficulty I had installing kde-unstable on the x86_64 box where I finally just installed with '-f', I have the exact setup on an i686 box where I am trying to install kde-unstable, but this time finding a way to do it without resorting to the '-f' option. On the box, I have kdemod3 installed and configured and I have never specifically installed kde4 from anywhere (I guess I got it by default with the Arch install).
So far, all packages for kde-unstable have been downloaded to the i686 box when I tried to install kde-unstable with 'pacman -Sy kde kde-extragear'. There were 20000+ lines of conflicts of the following type:
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I give up ;-( I'm pulling out the Nuclear option. I have uninstalled everything related to kde and kde-unstable still will not install. This has to be some type of bug. I'll report back after I get my system installed and running....
So you are right on a few counts. You *don't* have KDE installed, but you told it to get installed when you did the -Syu operation.
See how pacman prompts twice for "group kde"? The first time is for the [kde-unstable] repository; the second time is for [extra]. I'm not familiar with the whole KDE setup, so I can't speak for kde-extragear, but this is almost certainly what is going on.
Notice your conflict messages- they aren't saying anything about conflicts with the filesystem, but conflicts between packages that are to be installed: usr/lib/libsuperkaramba.so exists in both 'kdeutils-superkaramba' and 'kdeutils'
The short-term fix is to do exactly as you did, but only answer "Y" to the first kde group prompt, and "N" to the following one.
-Dan
I thought about that too Dan, but that isn't the case. I got the same blow up of conflicts with a simple: pacman -S kde Dunno, something is rotten somewhere... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com