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: error: could not prepare transaction error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) /usr/share/apps/color-schemes/Zion.colors exists in both 'kdeaccessibility- colorschemes' and 'kdeaccessibility' /usr/share/apps/color-schemes/ZionReversed.colors exists in both 'kdeaccessibility-colorschemes' and 'kdeaccessibility' /usr/share/icons/mono/128x128/animations/process-idle.png exists in both 'kdeaccessibility-iconthemes' and 'kdeaccessibility' /usr/share/icons/mono/128x128/animations/process-working.png exists in both 'kdeaccessibility-iconthemes' and 'kdeaccessibility' /usr/share/icons/mono/16x16/animations/process-idle.png exists in both 'kdeaccessibility-iconthemes' and 'kdeaccessibility' /usr/share/icons/mono/16x16/animations/process-working.png exists in both 'kdeaccessibility-iconthemes' and 'kdeaccessibility' /usr/share/icons/mono/22x22/animations/process-idle.png exists in both 'kdeaccessibility-iconthemes' and 'kdeaccessibility' /usr/share/icons/mono/22x22/animations/process-working.png exists in both 'kdeaccessibility-iconthemes' and 'kdeaccessibility' /usr/share/icons/mono/32x32/animations/process-idle.png exists in both 'kdeaccessibility-iconthemes' and 'kdeaccessibility' /usr/share/icons/mono/32x32/animations/process-working.png exists in both 'kdeaccessibility-iconthemes' and 'kdeaccessibility' <snip 20000 lines> Literally, thousands and thousands of conflicting files. For full details (100k) see: http://nirvana.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/kde4-conflicts- i686.txt.bz2 So on good advise, I set about to remove the conflicts by removing kde4 before trying to install kde4 from kde-unstable -- no joy, same conflicts: [17:40 supersff:/home/david] # pacman -Rs kde kde not found, searching for group... :: group kde: kdebase-runtime kdelibs kdemultimedia Remove whole content? [Y/n] checking dependencies... error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: k3b: requires kdelibs :: k3b: requires kdemultimedia :: k9copy: requires kdebase-runtime :: kdiff3: requires kdelibs [18:02 supersff:/home/david] # pacman -Rs kde k3b k9copy kdiff3 kde not found, searching for group... :: group kde: kdebase-runtime kdelibs kdemultimedia Remove whole content? [Y/n] checking dependencies... Remove (16): kdiff3-0.9.95-1 k9copy-2.3.2-1 k3b-1.66.0alpha2-1 polkit- qt-0.9.2-1 normalize-0.7.7-3 vorbis-tools-1.2.0-3 mpg123-1.7.3-1 cdrdao-1.2.2-2 kdemultimedia-4.2.4-1 kdebase- runtime-4.2.4-1 kdelibs-4.2.4-2 strigi-0.6.4-2 exiv2-0.18-1 soprano-2.2.3-1 clucene-0.9.21b-1 phonon-4.3.1-2 Total Removed Size: 213.03 MB Do you want to remove these packages? [Y/n] ( 1/16) removing kdiff3 [#################################################################################] 100% ( 2/16) removing k9copy [#################################################################################] 100% ( 3/16) removing k3b [#################################################################################] 100% ( 4/16) removing polkit-qt [#################################################################################] 100% ( 5/16) removing normalize [#################################################################################] 100% ( 6/16) removing vorbis-tools [#################################################################################] 100% ( 7/16) removing mpg123 [#################################################################################] 100% ( 8/16) removing cdrdao [#################################################################################] 100% ( 9/16) removing kdemultimedia [#################################################################################] 100% (10/16) removing kdebase-runtime [#################################################################################] 100% (11/16) removing kdelibs [#################################################################################] 100% (12/16) removing strigi [#################################################################################] 100% (13/16) removing exiv2 [#################################################################################] 100% (14/16) removing soprano [#################################################################################] 100% (15/16) removing clucene [#################################################################################] 100% (16/16) removing phonon [#################################################################################] 100% [18:03 supersff:/home/david] # pms kde kde-extragear :: Synchronizing package databases... kdemod-legacy is up to date kde-unstable is up to date core is up to date extra is up to date community is up to date archlinuxfr is up to date kde package not found, searching for group... :: group kde (including ignored packages): kdeaccessibility-colorschemes kdeaccessibility-iconthemes kdeaccessibility-kmag kdeaccessibility-kmousetool kdeaccessibility-kmouth kdeaccessibility-kttsd kdeadmin-kcron kdeadmin- ksystemlog kdeadmin-kuser <snip packages to be installed> Total Download Size: 0.00 MB Total Installed Size: 1470.55 MB Proceed with installation? [Y/n] checking package integrity... (272/272) checking for file conflicts [#################################################################################] 100% error: could not prepare transaction error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) /usr/share/apps/color-schemes/Zion.colors exists in both 'kdeaccessibility- colorschemes' and 'kdeaccessibility' /usr/share/apps/color-schemes/ZionReversed.colors exists in both 'kdeaccessibility-colorschemes' and 'kdeaccessibility' /usr/share/icons/mono/128x128/animations/process-idle.png exists in both 'kdeaccessibility-iconthemes' and 'kdeaccessibility' /usr/share/icons/mono/128x128/animations/process-working.png exists in both 'kdeaccessibility-iconthemes' and 'kdeaccessibility' /usr/share/icons/mono/16x16/animations/process-idle.png exists in both 'kdeaccessibility-iconthemes' and 'kdeaccessibility' /usr/share/icons/mono/16x16/animations/process-working.png exists in both 'kdeaccessibility-iconthemes' and 'kdeaccessibility' /usr/share/icons/mono/22x22/animations/process-idle.png exists in both 'kdeaccessibility-iconthemes' and 'kdeaccessibility' /usr/share/icons/mono/22x22/animations/process-working.png exists in both 'kdeaccessibility-iconthemes' and 'kdeaccessibility' /usr/share/icons/mono/32x32/animations/process-idle.png exists in both 'kdeaccessibility-iconthemes' and 'kdeaccessibility' /usr/share/icons/mono/32x32/animations/process-working.png exists in both 'kdeaccessibility-iconthemes' and 'kdeaccessibility' /usr/share/icons/mono/48x48/animations/process-idle.png exists in both 'kdeaccessibility-iconthemes' and 'kdeaccessibility' /usr/share/icons/mono/48x48/animations/process-working.png exists in both 'kdeaccessibility-iconthemes' and 'kdeaccessibility' /usr/share/icons/mono/64x64/animations/process-idle.png exists in both 'kdeaccessibility-iconthemes' and 'kdeaccessibility' Grrrrr. Same conflicts, what in the world is going on? The nearly identical gory details (99k): http://nirvana.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/kde4-conflicts-i686- again.txt.bz2 [18:21 supersff:/home/david] # pacman -Q | grep kde | grep -v kdemod3 <nothing> OK, what is 'accessibility' and where is the conflict? [18:26 supersff:/home/david] # pmq -s | grep accessibility A library providing a set of interfaces for accessibility local/kdemod3-kdeaccessibility 3.5.10-1 (kdemod3-complete kdemod3-vanilla) Huh?? kdemod3 is this issue??? Damn! Why can't I have kdemod3 and kde4 installed side-by-side and why can't I install kde-unstable if kdemod3 is installed. kde3 & kde4 can exist side-by-side just fine. What gives?? OK, fine, I'll blow kdemod3 away and try again (Note: I really did not want to have to do this...) pacman -Rs kdemod3-complete basket compizconfig-backend-kconfig filelight ksensors qcad OK, now both kde and everything related to kdemod has been torpedoed. Proceed with installation? [Y/n] checking package integrity... :: File pilot-link-0.12.3-4-i686.pkg.tar.gz is corrupted. Do you want to delete it? [Y/n] error: failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package) pilot-link-0.12.3-4-i686.pkg.tar.gz is invalid or corrupted Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. Oh for goodness sake! [18:39 supersff:/home/david] # pms kde kde-extragear :: Synchronizing package databases... kdemod-legacy is up to date kde-unstable is up to date core is up to date extra is up to date community is up to date archlinuxfr is up to date kde package not found, searching for group... :: group kde (including ignored packages): kdeaccessibility-colorschemes kdeaccessibility-iconthemes kdeaccessibility-kmag kdeaccessibility-kmousetool <snip> Total Download Size: 0.47 MB Total Installed Size: 1550.16 MB Proceed with installation? [Y/n] :: Retrieving packages from extra... pilot-link-0.12.3-4... 477.9K 126.3K/s 00:00:04 [#################################################################################] 100% checking package integrity... (299/299) checking for file conflicts [#################################################################################] 100% error: could not prepare transaction error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) /usr/share/apps/color-schemes/Zion.colors exists in both 'kdeaccessibility- colorschemes' and 'kdeaccessibility' /usr/share/apps/color-schemes/ZionReversed.colors exists in both 'kdeaccessibility-colorschemes' and 'kdeaccessibility' /usr/share/icons/mono/128x128/animations/process-idle.png exists in both 'kdeaccessibility-iconthemes' and 'kdeaccessibility' /usr/share/icons/mono/128x128/animations/process-working.png exists in both 'kdeaccessibility-iconthemes' and 'kdeaccessibility' /usr/share/icons/mono/16x16/animations/process-idle.png exists in both 'kdeaccessibility-iconthemes' and 'kdeaccessibility' /usr/share/icons/mono/16x16/animations/process-working.png exists in both 'kdeaccessibility-iconthemes' and 'kdeaccessibility' /usr/share/icons/mono/22x22/animations/process-idle.png exists in both 'kdeaccessibility-iconthemes' and 'kdeaccessibility' /usr/share/icons/mono/22x22/animations/process-working.png exists in both 'kdeaccessibility-iconthemes' and 'kdeaccessibility' /usr/share/icons/mono/32x32/animations/process-idle.png exists in both 'kdeaccessibility-iconthemes' and 'kdeaccessibility' /usr/share/icons/mono/32x32/animations/process-working.png exists in both 'kdeaccessibility-iconthemes' and 'kdeaccessibility' /usr/share/icons/mono/48x48/animations/process-idle.png exists in both 'kdeaccessibility-iconthemes' and 'kdeaccessibility' /usr/share/icons/mono/48x48/animations/process-working.png exists in both 'kdeaccessibility-iconthemes' and 'kdeaccessibility' /usr/share/icons/mono/64x64/animations/process-idle.png exists in both 'kdeaccessibility-iconthemes' and 'kdeaccessibility' / WTF???? This is a BUG, there isn't a damn thing installed and still I get 20000 lines of conflicts.... The same conflicts..... OK, let's disable kdemod- legacy in pacman and try once again. [18:46 supersff:/home/david] # vi /etc/pacman.conf [18:46 supersff:/home/david] # pms kde kde-extragear <snip SAME damn conflicts> Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. [18:46 supersff:/home/david] # 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.... -- 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