[arch-general] kde-unstable install - Round 2 - There is a BUG here...

[David C. Rankin]

On Wednesday 17 June 2009 19:04:42 Dan McGee wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 6:49 PM, David C.
>
> Rankin<drankinatty at 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:
>
> <snip>
>
> >        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...

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