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Cyberpunk_Is_Bae

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Registered: 2020-03-23

Posts: 36

Is removing a conflicting file a good way to resolve conflicts?

Thanks for reading my post.

Today I did:

$ sudo pacman -Syu

And it gave me an error:

error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
nss: /usr/lib/p11-kit-trust.so exists in filesystem
error occurred, no packages were upgraded.

To solve this I did:

$ sudo rm /usr/lib/p11-kit-trust.so

Is this dangerous / is there a better practice?

2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

Posts: 4,648

Re: Is removing a conflicting file a good way to resolve conflicts?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … )%22_error

V1del

Forum Moderator

Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,361

Re: Is removing a conflicting file a good way to resolve conflicts?

And for this case in particular, you should read the Arch news and probably try to get a better updating schedule than once in 7 months: https://www.archlinux.org/news/nss3511- … ervention/

Cyberpunk_Is_Bae

Member

Registered: 2020-03-23

Posts: 36

Re: Is removing a conflicting file a good way to resolve conflicts?

Thanks guys..  lol it's a new install in a vm from an old image, cut me some slack!

EDIT: I'll check ownership in the future before I blow up Alderaan.

Last edited by Cyberpunk_Is_Bae (2020-11-26 14:12:11)