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mata_svada

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From: Salzburg, Austria

Registered: 2007-01-31

Posts: 36

Replacing a package with a self-build package

If I have a self-build package that provides something (another package) that I allready have installed and also conflicts with, how do I replace the installed package with the self-build?

When I try to install it with

pacman -A /path/to/package

pacman first tells me that my self-build package conflicts with the installed and whether I want to remove it. If I tell him that he should remove the installed package I get a list of dependencies that would get broke and the installation aborts.

Any hints on how to solve that problem?

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,019

Re: Replacing a package with a self-build package

Use -U (upgrade) switch if updating the package with the same name.

Use -Rd (remove without dependencies) to uninstall a package and then install the one that provides the same.

Last edited by lucke (2007-02-11 23:15:27)