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retrodanny

Member

From: Mexico

Registered: 2011-07-30

Posts: 2

error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)

Hello everyone,

I've been trying to do a full system upgrade with pacman -Syu. I get the following output:

$ sudo pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
 archlinuxfr is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
:: Replace cyrus-sasl-plugins with extra/cyrus-sasl-gssapi? [Y/n] y
:: Replace cyrus-sasl-plugins with extra/cyrus-sasl-ldap? [Y/n] y
:: Replace cyrus-sasl-plugins with extra/cyrus-sasl-sql? [Y/n] y
:: Replace heimdal with core/krb5? [Y/n] y
:: Replace kernel26 with core/linux? [Y/n] y
:: Replace libelf with extra/elfutils? [Y/n] y
:: Replace libjpeg with extra/libjpeg-turbo? [Y/n] y
:: Replace mailx with core/heirloom-mailx? [Y/n] y
:: Replace pycairo with extra/python2-cairo? [Y/n] y
:: Replace pygobject with extra/python2-gobject2? [Y/n] y
:: Replace util-linux-ng with core/util-linux? [Y/n] y
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
:: cloog and cloog-ppl are in conflict (cloog-ppl<0.15.10-2). Remove cloog-ppl? [y/N] y
:: xorg-appres and xorg-res-utils are in conflict. Remove xorg-res-utils? [y/N] y
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: xfprint: requires heimdal>=1.3.1

I saw the same kind of thing going on in this thread but I couldn't figure out how to apply the fix on my own system. I would appreciate the help both in solving the problem and learning how to fix a similar issue by myself in the future.

thanks in advance!

-Danny

loafer

Member

From: the pub

Registered: 2009-04-14

Posts: 1,772

Re: error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)

You haven't updated for a while.  It should be safe to remove the packages which are not in the repos.

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karol

Archivist

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)

xfprint has been dropped to AUR https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23210
Remove it and try updating again.