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Ree

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Registered: 2010-05-19

Posts: 37

[SOLVED] Dependency problem after a long time of no updates

Hello everyone,

I'm having a problem upgrading the system after a long time of not updating it (I know).

resolving dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: poppler-qt4: installing poppler (0.63.0-1) breaks dependency 'poppler=0.61.1'

[root@rdhost ~]# pactree -r poppler=0.61.1
poppler provides poppler=0.61.1
├─cups-filters
│ └─cups
├─libreoffice-fresh
├─poppler-qt4
│ └─kfilemetadata4
│   └─libbaloo4
│     └─baloo4-akonadi
└─poppler-qt5
  ├─kfilemetadata
  │ ├─baloo
  │ │ ├─baloo-widgets
  │ │ │ └─dolphin
  │ │ │   ├─dolphin-plugins
  │ │ │   │ └─kde-meta-kdesdk
  │ │ │   │   └─kde-applications-meta
  │ │ │   ├─kde-meta-kdebase
  │ │ │   │ └─kde-applications-meta
  │ │ │   └─konqueror
  │ │ │     └─kde-meta-kdebase
  │ │ ├─gwenview
  │ │ │ └─kde-meta-kdegraphics
  │ │ │   └─kde-applications-meta
  │ │ ├─plasma-desktop
  │ │ │ └─plasma-meta
  │ │ └─plasma-mediacenter
  │ ├─k3b
  │ │ └─kde-meta-kdemultimedia
  │ │   └─kde-applications-meta
  │ └─kdenlive
  │   └─kde-meta-kdemultimedia
  └─okular
    └─kde-meta-kdegraphics

What is the recommended approach to fix this? Do I have to remove all poppler dependencies?

Last edited by Ree (2018-04-19 10:53:43)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,616

Re: [SOLVED] Dependency problem after a long time of no updates

None of the poppler-qt4 dependencies exist in the repos anymore either, so yes remove them all (just poppler-qt4 and deps should suffice), and after a successful update go through your orphans/foreign packages and clean out all the undoubtedly accumulated cruft.

Ree

Member

Registered: 2010-05-19

Posts: 37

Re: [SOLVED] Dependency problem after a long time of no updates

All good, thank you.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,616

Re: [SOLVED] Dependency problem after a long time of no updates

Please mark as [SOLVED] by editing the title in your first post.