With new stderr output: $ sudo pacman3 -S flex words resolving dependencies... done. looking for inter-conflicts... done. Targets: flex-2.5.33-1 words-1.0-4 Total Package Size: 5.0 MB Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y checking package integrity... done. checking for file conflicts (2/2) [#######################] 100% (1/2) installing flex [#######################] 100% (2/2) installing words [#######################] 100% ==> Determining which 'words' file to use in /usr/share/dict ==> Setting 'words' link to /usr/share/dict/usa $ sudo pacman3 -R flex words checking dependencies... done. error: cannot remove file usr/share/dict/words: No such file or directory error: cannot remove file usr/share/dict/usa: No such file or directory error: cannot remove file usr/share/dict/spanish: No such file or directory error: cannot remove file usr/share/dict/ngerman: No such file or directory error: cannot remove file usr/share/dict/italian: No such file or directory error: cannot remove file usr/share/dict/german: No such file or directory error: cannot remove file usr/share/dict/french: No such file or directory error: cannot remove file usr/share/dict/finnish: No such file or directory error: cannot remove file usr/share/dict/catalan: No such file or directory error: cannot remove file usr/share/dict/british: No such file or directory (1/2) removing words [#######################] 100% error: cannot remove file usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/flex.mo: No such file or directory error: cannot remove file usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/flex.mo: No such file or directory error: cannot remove file usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/flex.mo: No such file or directory error: cannot remove file usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/flex.mo: No such file or directory error: cannot remove file usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/flex.mo: No such file or directory error: cannot remove file usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/flex.mo: No such file or directory error: cannot remove file usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/flex.mo: No such file or directory error: cannot remove file usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/flex.mo: No such file or directory error: cannot remove file usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/flex.mo: No such file or directory error: cannot remove file usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/flex.mo: No such file or directory error: cannot remove file usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/flex.mo: No such file or directory error: cannot remove file usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/flex.mo: No such file or directory error: cannot remove file usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/flex.mo: No such file or directory error: cannot remove file usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/flex.mo: No such file or directory error: cannot remove file usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/flex.mo: No such file or directory error: cannot remove file usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/flex.mo: No such file or directory error: cannot remove file usr/man/man1/flex.1.gz: No such file or directory error: cannot remove file usr/lib/libfl.a: No such file or directory error: cannot remove file usr/include/FlexLexer.h: No such file or directory error: cannot remove file usr/bin/lex: No such file or directory error: cannot remove file usr/bin/flex: No such file or directory (2/2) removing flex [#######################] 100% $ sudo pacman3 -S flex words resolving dependencies... done. looking for inter-conflicts... done. Targets: flex-2.5.33-1 words-1.0-4 Total Package Size: 5.0 MB Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y checking package integrity... done. checking for file conflicts (2/2) [#######################] 100% error: could not prepare transaction error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) flex: /usr/bin/flex exists in filesystemflex: /usr/bin/lex exists in filesystemflex: /usr/include/FlexLexer.h exists in filesystemflex: /usr/lib/libfl.a exists in filesystemflex: /usr/man/man1/flex.1.gz exists in filesystemflex: /usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/flex.mo exists in filesystemflex: /usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/flex.mo exists in filesystemflex: /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/flex.mo exists in filesystemflex: /usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/flex.mo exists in filesystemflex: /usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/flex.mo exists in filesystemflex: /usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/flex.mo exists in filesystemflex: /usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/flex.mo exists in filesystemflex: /usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/flex.mo exists in filesystemflex: /usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/flex.mo exists in filesystemflex: /usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/flex.mo exists in filesystemflex: /usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/flex.mo exists in filesystemflex: /usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/flex.mo exists in filesystemflex: /usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/flex.mo exists in filesystemflex: /usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/flex.mo exists in filesystemflex: /usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/flex.mo exists in filesystemflex: /usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/flex.mo exists in filesystemwords: /usr/share/dict/british exists in filesystemwords: /usr/share/dict/catalan exists in filesystemwords: /usr/share/dict/finnish exists in filesystemwords: /usr/share/dict/french exists in filesystemwords: /usr/share/dict/german exists in filesystemwords: /usr/share/dict/italian exists in filesystemwords: /usr/share/dict/ngerman exists in filesystemwords: /usr/share/dict/spanish exists in filesystemwords: /usr/share/dict/usa exists in filesystemwords: /usr/share/dict/words exists in filesystem errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. $ ls -la /usr/share/dict/ total 23012 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-01-18 11:35 . drwxr-xr-x 131 root root 4096 2007-01-18 11:33 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 617300 2004-09-06 09:15 british -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3565935 2004-09-06 09:15 catalan -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 529871 2006-05-31 00:45 cracklib-small -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9996241 2004-09-06 09:15 finnish -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1464402 2004-09-06 09:15 french -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 951917 2004-09-06 09:15 german -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1243660 2004-09-06 09:15 italian -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3874019 2004-09-06 09:15 ngerman -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 835265 2004-09-06 09:15 spanish -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 408969 2004-09-06 09:15 usa lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 2007-01-18 11:35 words -> ./usa