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questionask

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Registered: 2021-01-09

Posts: 74

[SOLVED] replace maxima-ecl by extra/maxima: not performed

Since a few days, pacman -Syu wants to replace maxima-ecl by extra/maxima (code in German below). Even though it seems that maxima is installed, I get the same message over and over again each time I execute pacman -Syu. Is this a common problem or specific to my installation? What can I do?

:: maxima-ecl durch extra/maxima ersetzen? [J/n] 
Abhängigkeiten werden aufgelöst …
Nach in Konflikt stehenden Paketen wird gesucht …

Pakete (3) maxima-5.45.1-11  maxima-ecl-5.45.1-11
           maxima-ecl-5.45.1-11 [Entfernung]

Gesamtgröße der installierten Pakete:   75,03 MiB
Größendifferenz der Aktualisierung:    -12,78 MiB

:: Installation fortsetzen? [J/n] 
(2/2) Schlüssel im Schlüsselbund werden geprüft    [######################] 100%
(2/2) Paket-Integrität wird überprüft              [######################] 100%
(2/2) Paket-Dateien werden geladen                 [######################] 100%
(2/2) Auf Dateikonflikte wird geprüft              [######################] 100%
(3/3) Verfügbarer Festplattenspeicher wird erm...  [######################] 100%
:: Paketänderungen werden verarbeitet …
(1/1) Entfernung läuft maxima-ecl                  [######################] 100%
(1/2) Installiert wird maxima-ecl                  [######################] 100%
(2/2) Reinstalliert wird maxima                    [######################] 100%
:: Post-transaction-Hooks werden gestartet …
(1/4) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
(2/4) Updating the MIME type database...
(3/4) Updating the info directory file...
(4/4) Updating the desktop file MIME type cache...

Last edited by questionask (2022-07-10 17:21:06)

ayekat

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Registered: 2011-01-17

Posts: 1,632

Re: [SOLVED] replace maxima-ecl by extra/maxima: not performed

For the future, you can run pacman with LANG=C to get its default (english) output.

Looks like the issue is maxima stating `replaces=(maxima-ecl)`, but also `depends=(maxima-backend)`, which maxima-ecl provides.
So it causes maxima-ecl to be replaced by maxima, which then pulls in maxima-ecl as a dependency, rinse and repeat.

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questionask

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Registered: 2021-01-09

Posts: 74

Re: [SOLVED] replace maxima-ecl by extra/maxima: not performed

Thanks. With my latest run of pacman, the issue seems to have disappeared.

ayekat

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Registered: 2011-01-17

Posts: 1,632

Re: [SOLVED] replace maxima-ecl by extra/maxima: not performed

Ah yes, someone had opened this bugreport half an hour earlier, and it appears to be fixed with -12 now.

Please don't forget to mark the thread as solved by prepending [SOLVED] to the title.

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pkgs │ hacks │ cfg │ blag