System Upgrade

jL · 2016-02-20 21:34:55

Hi there,

I am trying a System update using

pacman -Syu

I am getting an error reading:

error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
oxygen-icons: /usr/share/icons/oxygen/128x128/mimetypes/fonts-package.png exists in filesystem
oxygen-icons: /usr/share/icons/oxygen/16x16/mimetypes/fonts-package.png exists in filesystem
oxygen-icons: /usr/share/icons/oxygen/22x22/mimetypes/fonts-package.png exists in filesystem
oxygen-icons: /usr/share/icons/oxygen/32x32/mimetypes/fonts-package.png exists in filesystem
oxygen-icons: /usr/share/icons/oxygen/48x48/mimetypes/fonts-package.png exists in filesystem
oxygen-icons: /usr/share/icons/oxygen/64x64/mimetypes/fonts-package.png exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

I understand that the usual procedure to react on this is to do a

pacman -Qo /path/to/file

doing so i obtain

pacman -Qo /usr/share/icons/oxygen/128x128/mimetypes/fonts-package.png
/usr/share/icons/oxygen/128x128/mimetypes/fonts-package.png is owned by kdebase-workspace 4.11.22-3

now the question is: I assume it is nothing bad and one could proceed renaming those files, however, since it seems for me that the output one would have hoped for would be the package raising the error, i.e., 'oxygen-icons', but I am getting 'kdebase-workspace 4.11.22-3' archwiki suggests to file a bugreport. Can anyone help telling me what the recommended way how to proceed is?

WorMzy · 2016-02-20 21:42:36

kdebase-workspace is an unsupported package, contact the maintainer and ask them to update their package.

pb · 2016-02-21 10:29:31

Is yours system up-to-date? There isn't kdebase-workspace in official repository becouse of dropping KDE 4 in Arch - see: https://www.archlinux.org/news/dropping-plasma-4/ (BTW: it's almost dropped by upstream). You should to decide: stay on KDE4, but it will be very difficult on Arch Linux or intall Plasma 5.

jL · 2016-02-23 14:44:06

Hm I see. Well actually probably not, thank you for the hint. I just took over this machine from a co-workers image. So I thought it was running on Plasma5 but there seems to be still quite a lot of KDE4 stuff installed. Is there a way to safely determine which KDE version is running, it seems that kde4 and 5 are installed simultaneously.

Or in other words, can all the kde4 packages be deinstalled? Probably I am answering quite vague, stupid question hard (or not at all) answerable.

bstaletic · 2016-02-23 14:50:27

The wiki has a guide on upgrading from KDE4 to Plasma5. Try it. I also see no reason why you can't uninstall everything left from KDE4.

s.matthew.english · 2016-04-07 14:54:13

When I tried following the guide in the wiki on the first step, viz. `# systemctl isolate multi-user.target` my display immediately shut off and I could no longer follow along with the tutorial.

Will this issue likely be resolved in a way that is not excruciatingly painful or should I just bite the bullet and attempt to follow that byzantine tutorial from hell

WorMzy · 2016-04-07 15:03:25

Excruciatingly painful? Really? It's six simple steps, of which one is optional (depending on your system).

Yes, 'systemctl isolate multi-user.target' kills the graphical session, this is expected. You would know this if you had checked what it did before blindly copy-pasting and running a command you found on the internet (as root no less).

s.matthew.english · 2016-04-07 15:05:40

it's not 6 simple steps- I afterwards have to reconfigure all my display settings- isn't it?

Note: The Plasma 4 configuration is not automatically migrated to Plasma 5, so you will have to configure your desktop from scratch.

^that doesn't sound simple

Last edited by s.matthew.english (2016-04-07 15:06:46)

WorMzy · 2016-04-07 15:15:52

That would depend on how much you tweaked Plasma 4, and how much Plasma 5's defaults break your workflow.

s.matthew.english · 2016-04-07 15:31:40

it's really killing me that I can't update pacman and download some new software from there- I don't really think I tweaked it much... I have amesome window aranger- what would be different about plasma 5?

should I just write down those steps and then execute them? just like that?

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