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tunneln

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Registered: 2014-01-21

Posts: 2

Can't run system upgrade due to ncurses

So for the past week or so, I haven't been able to run a system wide upgrade via pacman (pacman -Syu) and it's been due to ncurses having the weirdest of issues.

The error I get is:

error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
lib32-ncurses: /usr/lib32/libcurses.so exists in filesystem
lib32-ncurses: /usr/lib32/libcursesw.so exists in filesystem
lib32-ncurses: /usr/lib32/libform.so exists in filesystem
lib32-ncurses: /usr/lib32/libformw.so exists in filesystem
lib32-ncurses: /usr/lib32/libmenu.so exists in filesystem
lib32-ncurses: /usr/lib32/libmenuw.so exists in filesystem
lib32-ncurses: /usr/lib32/libncurses.so exists in filesystem
lib32-ncurses: /usr/lib32/libncursesw.so exists in filesystem
lib32-ncurses: /usr/lib32/libpanel.so exists in filesystem
lib32-ncurses: /usr/lib32/libpanelw.so exists in filesystem
lib32-ncurses: /usr/share/licenses/lib32-ncurses exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded

I'm a bit hesitant to just delete these files due to scary stories of people's BASH not working afterwards. Does anyone know what's going on?

Any help is much appreciated!

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 11,599

Re: Can't run system upgrade due to ncurses

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … 9.22_error

Don't be worried about removing them, nothing "lib32" is critical.

Last edited by Scimmia (2015-10-04 06:29:15)