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Zibi1981

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From: Poland

Registered: 2008-01-31

Posts: 718

Cannot install/update apparmor.d-git because of conflicts.

Since there is no "force upgrade" option in Pacman, how to resolve this

LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 sudo pacman -S apparmor.d-git
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Package (1)             New Version  Net Change

apparmor.d-git  0.3342-1       5.94 MiB

Total Installed Size:  5.94 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
(1/1) checking keys in keyring                                                          [---------------------------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity                                                        [---------------------------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) loading package files                                                             [---------------------------------------------------] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts                                                       [---------------------------------------------------] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
apparmor.d-git: /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/devices-usb exists in filesystem (owned by apparmor)
apparmor.d-git: /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/devices-usb-read exists in filesystem (owned by apparmor)
apparmor.d-git: /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/nameservice-strict exists in filesystem (owned by apparmor)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

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mithrial

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Registered: 2017-03-05

Posts: 78

Re: Cannot install/update apparmor.d-git because of conflicts.

The is the override option.

Lone_Wolf

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Registered: 2005-10-04

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Re: Cannot install/update apparmor.d-git because of conflicts.

Figure out why this fails before overriding .

I'd start with seeing if using apparmor.d-git + apparmor-git gives the same issue .

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Moving to AUR Issues, Discussion & PKGBUILD Requests

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2025-04-13 10:22:08)

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loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 18,402

Re: Cannot install/update apparmor.d-git because of conflicts.

devices-usb and devices-usb-read were added by:
https://gitlab.com/apparmor/apparmor/-/ … 8fedccd383
nameservice-strict was added by:
https://gitlab.com/apparmor/apparmor/-/ … 252956d5ff
So I would expect apparmor.d-git to remove those files as they are now provided by apparmor.

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: Cannot install/update apparmor.d-git because of conflicts.

Since there is no "force upgrade" option in Pacman

And a good thing, too. It was removed to stop people from using it in situations they shouldn't, such as this one.