[arch-general] howto remove old package version

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 12 Nov 2016 19:34:47 +0000, niya levi via arch-general wrote:
>pacman -Syu
>:: Starting full system upgrade...
>
>warning: mesa: local (13.0.0rc2-2) is newer than extra (12.0.3-3.1)
>warning: mesa-libgl: local (13.0.0rc2-2) is newer than extra
>(12.0.3-3.1)
>
>how do i remove old version and install new with pacman,
>have tried pacman -R but had dependency problems.

Why do you want to remove it first?

What kind of dependency issues?

pacman -S --force <packagename>

or

pacman -Rdd <packagename> && pacman -S <packagename>

might do what you need. But since your request isn't clear, it's hard
to say what you need to do.

Regards,
Ralf