On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Samuel Baldwin <recursive.forest@gmail.com

wrote:

I'm trying to update my system with 'pacman -Syu', but doing so discovers a conflict with phonon; phonon conflicts with qt, but kdelibs apparently needs both. What should I do? Trying to install phonon by hand requires uninstalling qt, but other packages depend on it (including kdelibs).

arrakis^samuel# pacman -Syu :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date extra is up to date community is up to date :: Starting full system upgrade... :: Replace kdelibs-experimental with extra/kdelibs? [Y/n] :: Replace kernel-headers with core/linux-api-headers? [Y/n] :: Replace pil with extra/python-imaging? [Y/n] warning: quodlibet-plugins: local (20080926-2) is newer than extra (2.2-1) resolving dependencies... warning: dependency cycle detected: warning: xorg-server will be installed before its nvidia-utils dependency looking for inter-conflicts... error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: kdelibs: requires phonon -- Samuel Baldwin - logik.li

This was posted on planet arch, arch-news, and already discussed here on the list. What you basically need to do is: $ pacman -Sy --asdeps qt $ pacman -Su This should fix the problem.