[arch-general] Whats wrong with this error message

[Xavier]

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 4:29 PM,  <Nezmer at allurelinux.org> wrote:
> 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 .
>

Just FYI, this limitation of pacman is gone in 3.4 (thanks Nagy!).