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dirmu

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Registered: 2015-09-13

Posts: 1

VirtualBox installation fails due to strange dependency issue

Hello everybody!

I have been using Arch for quite a while now without any major problems. However, I was doing my regular 'pacman -Syu' the other day and it failed because of a dependency issue with Virtual Box. I did not have much time and I wanted to complete the update, so I uninstalled Virtual Box and the update finished without errors.

Later on I tried to reinstall Virtual Box but I could not because pacman was telling me that the nvidia package requires a kernel version greater than 4.2.

(translated output)

$ sudo pacman -S virtualbox
Resolving dependencies...
Search conflicting packages ...
Error: Could not prepare the operation ( Can not satisfy dependencies )
:: NVIDIA : requires Linux > = 4.2

However, the nvidia driver is up to date and running and I have kernel version 4.2.

$ pacman -Q nvidia
nvidia 355.11-2
$ uname -r
4.2.0-4-ARCH
$ lsmod |grep nvidia
nvidia               8622080  33
drm                   286720  3 nvidia

I have tried to reinstall kernel and driver, cleaned the cache, ran testdb but the problem persists.

Frankly, I am running out of ideas. Searching the web has not helped and I could not really find a similar issue. I have to admit that I am far from being an expert with pacman. Hoping that I have not screwed something totally, I would like to ask if anyone of you could help me on this. If you need any further information, please let me know. Thanks in advance!

Following my pacman.conf:

[options]
HoldPkg  = pacman glibc
Architecture = auto
CheckSpace
SigLevel = Never
LocalFileSigLevel = Optional

[testing]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[core]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[extra]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[community]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[multilib-testing]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[multilib]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[pipelight]
Server = http://repos.fds-team.de/stable/arch/x86_64

EDIT: I have just taken another look and found it. I missed to enable the community-testing repo (facepalm). Sorry for bothering, thread can be closed. (I just wonder why I did not run into trouble earlier)

Last edited by dirmu (2015-09-13 20:51:06)