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EmyrB

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From: Wales, UK

Registered: 2006-09-04

Posts: 122

Unable to upgrade pacman

Hi All,

Went to upgrade my Arch install today. It's been about a month since I last used it. when I issued the command pacman -Syu it told me that I needed to upgrade pacman first. Not a problem, so I said yes, but then it failed with this message: -

resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: package-query: requires pacman<3.5

So I issued pacman -Ss package-query and I got this: -

archlinuxfr/package-query 0.7-1 [installed: 0.6-1]
    Query ALPM and AUR

So I then did pacman -S package-query and got this: -

:: The following packages should be upgraded first :
    pacman
:: Do you want to cancel the current operation
:: and upgrade these packages now? [Y/n]

I said yes and got: -

resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: package-query: requires pacman<3.5

And round and round we go

I have tried forcing pacman, but I still get the same errors. Any ideas how I get around this?

Cheers

EmyrB

Edit: I forgot to say the version of pacman installed is 3.4.3-1

Last edited by EmyrB (2011-04-16 11:32:16)

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SS4

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From: !Rochford, Essex

Registered: 2010-12-05

Posts: 699

Re: Unable to upgrade pacman

package-query is not compatible with pacman 3.5 hence the error.

You can either remove it and upgrade or choose not to upgrade pacman

This has done many terms, as google will tell you

Last edited by SS4 (2011-04-16 11:56:43)

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Unable to upgrade pacman

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 98#p907598
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 39#p907739

Last edited by karol (2011-04-16 13:02:03)

EmyrB

Member

From: Wales, UK

Registered: 2006-09-04

Posts: 122

Re: Unable to upgrade pacman

Cheers guys. I got round it by not upgrading pacman and that did the trick

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Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

Posts: 11,384

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Re: Unable to upgrade pacman

Well, that seems to be avoiding the issue rather than fixing it...

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