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Simaryp

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Registered: 2018-04-28

Posts: 141

Can't update due to webkit2gtk-5.0

The last update is a few months past. I wanted to update my system, but get the following error.

Fehler: Der Vorgang konnte nicht durchgeführt werden (In Konflikt stehende Dateien)
webkitgtk-6.0: /usr/bin/WebKitWebDriver existiert im Dateisystem (gehört zu webkit2gtk-5.0)
Fehler sind aufgetreten, keine Pakete wurden aktualisiert.

This roughly translates as "webkitgtk-6.0: /usr/bin/WebKitWebDriver exists in file system (belongs to webkit2gtk-5.0)".

I tried to do `sudo pacman -Sii webkit2gtk-5.0`, but pacman doesn't know it.

I don't want to mess anything up yet, but I guess a solution would be to delete it, but I am a bit hesitated.

Scimmia

Fellow

Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 11,632

Re: Can't update due to webkit2gtk-5.0

When posting output of a command, prepend it with LC_ALL=C

webkit2gtk-5.0 is not in the repos, which is why -Sii doesn't work. Why do you have it installed? See pacman -Qi <package>.

Simaryp

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Registered: 2018-04-28

Posts: 141

Re: Can't update due to webkit2gtk-5.0

Ah, that was what I attempted to get via -Sii.

Pacman say's, it is required by evolution-data-server.

Scimmia

Fellow

Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 11,632

Re: Can't update due to webkit2gtk-5.0

That dep was removed 3 months ago.

If that's the only thing that needs it, I would remove it with -Rdd, which you should generally not do because it will break deps, but it won't matter because the current version doesn't have that dep.

Simaryp

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Registered: 2018-04-28

Posts: 141

Re: Can't update due to webkit2gtk-5.0

Thank you very much!

Simaryp

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Registered: 2018-04-28

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Re: Can't update due to webkit2gtk-5.0

There was some other thing related to changed hooks I figured out myself.

One thing I would like to know is, did I mess that up or was it bad luck?

And is there a standard method to merge the .pacnew file?

teckk

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Registered: 2013-02-21

Posts: 519

Re: Can't update due to webkit2gtk-5.0

I updated yesterday and webkit2gtk-5.0 is in extra.

pacman -Si webkit2gtk-5.0
Repository      : extra
Name            : webkit2gtk-5.0
Version         : 2.38.6-1
Description     : Web content engine for GTK
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : https://webkitgtk.org
...

Simaryp

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Registered: 2018-04-28

Posts: 141

Re: Can't update due to webkit2gtk-5.0

Does that mean I probably messed up?

Btw I found out about pacdiff.wasn't aware about that and have quite a few pacnews to handle.

Trilby

Inspector Parrot

Registered: 2011-11-29

Posts: 29,597

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Re: Can't update due to webkit2gtk-5.0

No teckk did.  That package was removed from the arch linux repos a couple months ago and has not been added back.

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Simaryp

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Registered: 2018-04-28

Posts: 141

Re: Can't update due to webkit2gtk-5.0

Thanks.