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JazzPotato

Member

Registered: 2011-10-22

Posts: 39

Pacman update problems

Hi there,
been using arch for about a week now and have  had no problems with pacman until today when i get this this message:

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

resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: packagekit: requires pacman<3.6.0

Which pops up whenever i try to perform an operation in pacman, like -S, -Syu, -Syy.
It's not a fatal problem as i can just answer no and it continues as normal, but its quite annoying.
Thanks in advance

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karol

Archivist

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Pacman update problems

Please search the forums.

Why oh why are you using [testing] if you're not subscribed to the arch-dev-public mailing list?

Last edited by karol (2011-10-22 16:39:34)

Pierre

Developer

From: Bonn

Registered: 2004-07-05

Posts: 1,967

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Re: Pacman update problems

Don't get me wrong, but you shouldn't use [testing] before you are more familiar on how to use it.

However, there are two solutions: Wait until packagekit is compatible with the new pacman or better use plain pacman without any unofficial frontend.

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JazzPotato

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Registered: 2011-10-22

Posts: 39

Re: Pacman update problems

Sorry! I was following a tutorial on how to get gnome3 out of fallback, and just echoed his steps. thx.

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karol

Archivist

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Pacman update problems

Sorry! I was following a tutorial on how to get gnome3 out of fallback, and just echoed his steps. thx.

Can you share a link to this tutorial?

JazzPotato

Member

Registered: 2011-10-22

Posts: 39

Re: Pacman update problems

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3GYD46RYtE
I was wondering if it wasnt the nouveau drivers that were the problem, it was a possibl fault in my installation of gnome-shell.

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