[arch-general] Cannot upgrade.

[Thanasis Georgiou]

On 14 February 2012 19:49, Madhurya Kakati <mkakati2805 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
> The command pacman -Su fails(I ran -Sy separately before this). I last updated the system day before yesterday.
>
> $ sudo pacman -Su
> :: The following packages should be upgraded first :
> pacman
> :: Do you want to cancel the current operation
> :: and upgrade these packages now? [Y/n]
> resolving dependencies...
> looking for inter-conflicts...
> :: gcc-libs and gcc-libs-multilib are in conflict. Remove
> gcc-libs-multilib? [y/N] N
> error: unresolvable package conflicts detected
> error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
> :: gcc-libs and gcc-libs-multilib are in conflict
>
> Do I have to remove gcc-libs-multilib?
> --
> Madhurya Kakati
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Happened to me too earlier today, I just tried to update pacman first
(pacman -S pacman, the repositories should be up-to-date since you
synced them already) and then did a -Suy. Worked just fine.

-- 
Thanasis Georgiou