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#1 2007-02-28 00:20:19

varaahan
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pacman upgradation failure

I ran pacman -Syu and downloaded about 269.2 MB and then got the following error msg:

"[root@myhost sridhar]# pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
:: testing is up to date
current                  [################] 100%      70K    11.9K/s  00:00:05
extra                    [################] 100%     254K    31.1K/s  00:00:08
unstable                 [################] 100%      11K     3.8K/s  00:00:03
community                [################] 100%      44K    11.9K/s  00:00:03


Total Package Size:   269.2 MB

Proceed with upgrade? [Y/n] y


checking package integrity... done.
loading package data... done.
checking for file conflicts...
error: the following file conflicts were found:
  codecs: /usr/lib/win32: exists in filesystem


errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
"

I have given just the relevant portions .
I wud like to know if I have to remove win32 codecs before upgradation, which will make playing some music files impossible.


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#2 2007-02-28 00:45:29

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Re: pacman upgradation failure

no. it looks like there is simply something trying to install there.
Do a `pacman -Qo /usr/lib/win32`

And see how it works.


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#3 2007-02-28 10:18:04

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Re: pacman upgradation failure

I remember this thing. I solved it by: rm -rf /usr/lib/win32


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#4 2007-02-28 13:13:20

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Re: pacman upgradation failure

it's just a file conflict. that can be resolved by removing the conflicting files; however it it recommend to make sure the files do not belong to another pkg first. that's where the pacman -Qo comes in.


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#5 2007-03-02 02:43:00

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Re: pacman upgradation failure

Before attempting your suggestions , I wud like to know one thing:
Since I have already installed win32 codecs, what makes it a conflict for upgradation ?
If I remove these codecs, I think I will have to reinstall them.


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#6 2007-03-02 03:46:08

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Re: pacman upgradation failure

do a `pacman -Qo /usr/lib/win32` as cactus suggested and post the output.. perhaps you installed codecs without using pacman?

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#7 2007-03-19 16:27:13

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Re: pacman upgradation failure

Her is it:

[root@myhost sridhar]# pacman -Qo /usr/lib/win32
No package owns /usr/lib/win32


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#8 2007-03-19 16:28:06

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Re: pacman upgradation failure

I use pacman alone for installing softwares


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#9 2007-03-19 16:50:15

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Re: pacman upgradation failure

pacman -Qo doesn't work on directories - how would "pacman -Qo /usr/bin" work?

Rerun that on a file under that directory.

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#10 2007-03-19 18:20:57

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Re: pacman upgradation failure

phrakture wrote:

pacman -Qo doesn't work on directories - how would "pacman -Qo /usr/bin" work?

Rerun that on a file under that directory.

Actually, it does work on a directory that is owned by a single package.
example.

$ pacman -Qo /var/cache/man/
/var/cache/man/ is owned by filesystem 0.8-1

$ pacman -Qo /usr/sbin/
/usr/sbin/ is owned by glibc 2.5-6

You just have to know that you are talking about a toplevel directory that exists inside the package.
If the package tarball does not contain a directory, but only a file..then yes..that will not work.


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#11 2007-03-19 18:37:47

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Re: pacman upgradation failure

cactus wrote:
phrakture wrote:

pacman -Qo doesn't work on directories - how would "pacman -Qo /usr/bin" work?

Rerun that on a file under that directory.

Actually, it does work on a directory that is owned by a single package.
example.

$ pacman -Qo /var/cache/man/
/var/cache/man/ is owned by filesystem 0.8-1

$ pacman -Qo /usr/sbin/
/usr/sbin/ is owned by glibc 2.5-6

You just have to know that you are talking about a toplevel directory that exists inside the package.
If the package tarball does not contain a directory, but only a file..then yes..that will not work.

And the slash at the end is required:

$ pacman -Qo /var/cache/man/
/var/cache/man/ is owned by filesystem 0.8-1

$ pacman -Qo /var/cache/man 
No package owns /var/cache/man

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#12 2007-03-19 19:05:53

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Re: pacman upgradation failure

yeah. good catch snowman


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