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reddox

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Registered: 2011-05-07

Posts: 6

System Upgrade after a long time

Hi,

I haven't updated my system since a long time (at least 6 Months). Now I want to perform an upgrade by pacman-Syu.
Naturally I'm asked for a pacman upgrade first to which I agree. Now I'm getting the following error:

error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: cyrus-sasl-gssapi: requires libsasl=2.1.23-7
:: cyrus-sasl-ldap: requires libsasl=2.1.23-7
:: cyrus-sasl-sql: requires libsasl=2.1.23-7
:: gcc: requires gcc-libs=4.6.1-4

I'm guessing libsasl is broken - but how do I fix this (pacman -Rd libsasl reports the same error, w/o the gcc part)

Thanks

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: System Upgrade after a long time

You have to re-read pacman's man page, '-Rd' only deals with version mismatches and you are trying to remove the package altogether. Not sure what are you trying to achieve that way, libsasl is not broken, we have a newer version in the repos and 'pacman -Syu' should update cyrus-sasl-* too.

Did https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1057709 work for the pacman update / gcc issue?