[arch-general] Whats wrong with this error message

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Fri Oct 9 10:22:35 EDT 2009


David Houston wrote:
> dave at devbox [2054] --> pacman -U nvidia-utils-beta-190.36-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
> loading package data...
> checking dependencies...
> error: replacing packages with -U is not supported yet
> error: you can replace packages manually using -Rd and -U
> error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
> :: nvidia-utils-beta: conflicts with nvidia-utils
> zsh: exit 1     sudo pacman -U nvidia-utils-beta-190.36-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
>   

Q: Whats wrong with this error message
A: Nothing...

You want:
pacman -Rd nvidia-utils
pacman -U nvidia-utils-beta-190.36-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz





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