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qubodup

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Registered: 2008-01-19

Posts: 66

[solved] pacman -Syu x264: /usr/bin/x264 exists in filesystem

If for whatever reason (archlinux-fr related?) you get this error when updating:

error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
x264: /usr/bin/x264 exists in filesystem
x264: /usr/bin/x264-10bit exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

Then deleting the files in question might be a valid solution. Just make sure to check:

$ pacman -Qo /usr/bin/x264-10bit /usr/bin/x264
error: No package owns /usr/bin/x264-10bit
error: No package owns /usr/bin/x264

and

$ file /usr/bin/x264-10bit /usr/bin/x264
/usr/bin/x264-10bit: empty
/usr/bin/x264:       empty

so you feel safe when running

sudo rm /usr/bin/x264-10bit /usr/bin/x264

ayekat

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Registered: 2011-01-17

Posts: 1,591

Re: [solved] pacman -Syu x264: /usr/bin/x264 exists in filesystem

This is nice, but it's described in the wiki (here), and does not only happen in relation with archlinux-fr, but in general when a package is buggy or the system maintainer does something funky (where latter happens more often, usually).

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