[arch-general] Whats wrong with this error message

[Nezmer at allurelinux.org]

On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 03:16:02PM +0100, David Houston wrote:
> 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
It means "nvidia-utils-beta" conflicts and should replace
"nvidia-utils". If the beta package was in a repo , pacman would have
prompted you to replace the package.

This smooth replacement procedure is not supported with "pacman -U". So
as a workaround , You uninstall the conflicting package without
dependency checking and then "pacman -U" the new package .