[arch-general] Problem with "geoclue2" update

Ralf Mardorf silver.bullet at zoho.com
Sun Nov 13 17:10:34 UTC 2016


Most likely nothing requires geoclue...

$ pacman -Qo /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/geoclue/geoclue.devhelp2
$ pacman -Qi geoclue geoclue2 | grep "Required By"

if so remove it

# pacman -R geoclue

else if force installing geoclue2

# pacman -S --force geoclue2

fi

FWIW I removed it hours ago.
Another useful command to decide if a package should be required or
not, could be "pactree".

[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ man pacman | grep "\-\-force" -A2
       --force
           Bypass file conflict checks and overwrite conflicting files. If the package that is about to be
           installed contains files that are already installed, this option will cause all those files to be
           overwritten. Using --force will not allow overwriting a directory with a file or installing
           packages with conflicting files and directories. This option should be used with care, ideally not
           at all.
[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ grep geo /var/log/pacman.log | tail -3
[2016-11-13 09:17] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -R geoclue'
[2016-11-13 09:17] [ALPM] removed geoclue (0.12.99-2)
[2016-11-13 09:18] [ALPM] upgraded geoclue2 (2.4.4-1 -> 2.4.4-2)

Regards,
Ralf


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