I cant download or upgrade

f4rm0r · 2012-03-20 20:29:04

Hello, I wonder why I cant upgrade my pacman to <3.5
when I try to download anything it asks if I want to upgrade pacman, I click y,
but when it tries to download it says this:

 [root@Nnoitra gilga-nnoitra]# pacman -Suy
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
:: The following packages should be upgraded first :
   pacman
:: Do you ant to cance the current operation
:: and upgrade these packages now? [Y/n]  y

resolving dependecies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
error failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: package-query: requires pacman<3.6
:: pyalpm: requires pacman<3.6

and if I dont choose to upgrade, it says the same thing, atleast from resolving depencies part it says same thing, i do not have any more information to give you right now, and just so you know I am new to arch.
I did the very same thing yesterday on my other computer that have arch as a guest operating system, and it worked then, but now it wont work on a computer that have arch as a main operating system.

thank you for taking your time trying to help me solve this

/Anders

azleifel · 2012-03-20 20:35:59

Have a look at https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=135422

loafer · 2012-03-20 20:36:51

package-query is an AUR package. Remove it, upgrade and then reinstall it.

However, please check your mirrors before updating and make sure they are up-to-date.

f4rm0r · 2012-03-20 20:40:54

how do I check if my mirrors are up-to-date?
I will uninstall it, then reinstall it, but do you know if pyalpm is a package from AUR to? or if it is something else?

loafer · 2012-03-20 20:44:52

$  pacman -Ss pyalpm
extra/pyalpm 0.5.3-1 [installed]
    Libalpm bindings for Python

The link to the mirror tools is on the homepage under Tools. I was a little concerned about the age of your mirrors with the refernece to pacman 3.5 as 4.0.2 is in core.

edit: make sure you read the link supplied by azleifel.

Last edited by loafer (2012-03-20 20:49:46)

bernarcher · 2012-03-20 20:45:43

@f4rm0r
Try this: http://www.archlinux.org/mirrors/status/

f4rm0r · 2012-03-20 21:33:09

ok, I chose one mirror from sweden (I live in sweden) but I do not kno if I can take one at ~97% completition...
so which one would you recommend for me?

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#1 2012-03-20 20:29:04

I cant download or upgrade

#2 2012-03-20 20:35:59

Re: I cant download or upgrade

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#5 2012-03-20 20:44:52

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#6 2012-03-20 20:45:43

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