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dragos240

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Registered: 2009-05-23

Posts: 189

Upgraded year old system

I use my netbook daily, but I haven't needed to install or upgrade in over a year, I recently found out that my pacman was outdated and I wasn't able to update without forcing it. So I did an upgrade, restarted, and rather than seeing my display manager/login screen I saw the console one, so I assumed X broke, after investigating a bit, xorg and xorg-apps needed to be re-installed. That seemed to fix it. The problem I have right now is removing old packages that no longer exist.

Help?

Inxsible

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

Posts: 9,183

Re: Upgraded year old system

Arch is a rolling release. You shouldn't wait that long to update your machine because it will lead to breakage like you experienced.

Are you now planning to remove all old packages? I am not too sure what your problem is. If you select a updated mirror and

pacman -Syyu

it should update all the packages for you. After that you can clear your cache to completely get rid of packages that are not installed on your machine by

pacman -Sc

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litemotiv

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Registered: 2008-08-01

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Re: Upgraded year old system

This might also help:

$ pacman -Qdt

It lists packages that were installed as dependencies but are no longer required.

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dragos240

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Registered: 2009-05-23

Posts: 189

Re: Upgraded year old system

Thanks! This helps a lot!

EDIT: Still getting an error when doing a full re-install:
error: target not found: alsaequal

Last edited by dragos240 (2011-06-06 14:43:22)

eduardo.eae

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From: Reconquista - Argentina

Registered: 2010-01-24

Posts: 68

Re: Upgraded year old system

alsaequal is in aur.
You can use yaourt or another aur helper to update it.

dragos240

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Registered: 2009-05-23

Posts: 189

Re: Upgraded year old system

Well... that explains it..