[arch-general] Cannot upgrade.

[Jonathan Hudson]

On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:19:28 +0530
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?

No. Just update pacman by itself

# pacman -S pacman

Then do the rest. Happens every time with multilib

-jh