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celf

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From: Espoo / Finland

Registered: 2004-09-15

Posts: 19

ejabberd missing dependency

ejabberd package can't be installed due to a missing dependency (erlang-unixodbc):

> sudo pacman -S ejabberd
resolving dependencies...
warning: cannot resolve "erlang-unixodbc", a dependency of "ejabberd"
:: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies:
      ejabberd

:: Do you want to skip the above package for this upgrade? [y/N] N
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'erlang-unixodbc' required by ejabberd

WorMzy

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From: Scotland

Registered: 2010-06-16

Posts: 12,306

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Re: ejabberd missing dependency

Looks like erlang-unixodbc was dropped from the repos before it was removed as a dependency. You can grab the last version from the Arch Linux Archive here: https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/ … kg.tar.zst but it may have been dropped because it was broken (I can't find any rationale for its removal).

File a bug report, if you can get access to the bug tracker: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … issues/new

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celf

Member

From: Espoo / Finland

Registered: 2004-09-15

Posts: 19

Re: ejabberd missing dependency

Thanks. Unfortunately I don't have an Archlinux's Gitlab account, so I can't file a bug report. That's why I posted it here instead

Awebb

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Registered: 2010-05-06

Posts: 6,510

Re: ejabberd missing dependency

You could do as the red box says:

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celf

Member

From: Espoo / Finland

Registered: 2004-09-15

Posts: 19

Re: ejabberd missing dependency

@Awebb, yes of course I also thought of that, but I think that maybe too much trouble for everyone involved for such a small thing (I have not opened a bug in Arch in years and probably is going to be the same until the next one ). That's why I opted for this alternative. But given the responses maybe I should request an account even for such small report.