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masterofamn

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Registered: 2012-05-09

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[Solved] openmotif lesstif conflict

Hi,

doing a

pacman -Suy

this morning, pacman suddenly thinks I have a conflict between openmotif and lesstif - and it suggsts to remove lesstif.

However:

pacman -Ss motif
community/openmotif 2.3.7-1

pacman -Ss lesstif
extra/lesstif 0.95.2-6 [Installed]

so I do not even have openmotif installed.

Anyone got a clue what's going on here?

Last edited by masterofamn (2017-09-02 05:26:09)

jasonwryan

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Re: [Solved] openmotif lesstif conflict

It has always conflicted.

Please paste your pacman.conf and the full output of `pacman -Syu`

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arojas

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Re: [Solved] openmotif lesstif conflict

lesstif is being dropped. So yes, remove it.

masterofamn

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Registered: 2012-05-09

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Re: [Solved] openmotif lesstif conflict

lesstif is being dropped. So yes, remove it.

OK, thanks for the hint/link. This makes sense but leads to some more issues:

pacman -Suy
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
:: openmotif and lesstif are in conflict. Remove lesstif? [y/N]y
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: xpdf: removing lesstif breaks dependency 'lesstif'

and

pacman -Qi lesstif
Name            : lesstif
Version         : 0.95.2-6
Description     : LGPL'd re-implementation of Motif
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : http://sourceforge.net/projects/lesstif/
Licenses        : LGPL  MIT
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : freetype2  libxt  libxp
Optional Deps   : None
Required By     : nedit  xpdf
Optional For    : None
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Installed Size  : 4.17 MiB
Packager        : Eric Belanger <eric@archlinux.org>
Build Date      : Sun 27 Oct 2013 12:51:34 AM CEST
Install Date    : Fri 02 Jun 2017 05:52:34 PM CEST
Install Reason  : Installed as a dependency for another package
Install Script  : No
Validated By    : Signature

so no more xpdf and nedit?

boism

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Registered: 2017-09-01

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Re: [Solved] openmotif lesstif conflict

Hi,
I have exactly  the same problem and in my case ignoring the package fbida allowed to upgrade everything else.
*** Please note that this is a workaround, not a fix. ***
pacman -Syu --needed --ignore fbida

If it doesn't help you, try to run this:
pacman -Syu --needed --ignore openmotif
it should tell you what is the package(s) that create the problem:

:: Synchronising package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
archlinuxfr is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
warning: ignoring package openmotif-2.3.7-1
warning: cannot resolve "openmotif", a dependency of "fbida"
:: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies:
      fbida

:: Do you want to skip the above package for this upgrade? [y/N]

if you have several packages that create the problem, you can add as much --ignore pkgname as needed to the pacman command line.

Regards

progandy

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Registered: 2012-05-17

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Re: [Solved] openmotif lesstif conflict

lesstif is being dropped. So yes, remove it.

OK, thanks for the hint/link. This makes sense but leads to some more issues:
...
so no more xpdf and nedit?

The todo-list shows both packages as recompiled for openmotif and they are in the repositories.

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masterofamn

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Re: [Solved] openmotif lesstif conflict

Yep, now the packages were updated and the conflict no longer occurs.