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ampe00

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Registered: 2019-06-16

Posts: 10

[SOLVED] unresolvable package conflicts detected - pipewire-pulse

Hi, this issue is a few days old now, usually I would just allow pacman to replace any conflict but that doesn't work either. I think the cosmic update is interfering. I suppose I could go ahead and ignore but I want that cosmic update. >:)

No:

$ sudo pacman -Syyu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core                                                                                                         118.0 KiB   480 KiB/s 00:00 [####################################################################################] 100%
 extra                                                                                                          7.7 MiB  10.9 MiB/s 00:01 [####################################################################################] 100%
 multilib                                                                                                     136.4 KiB   646 KiB/s 00:00 [####################################################################################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
:: pipewire-pulse-1:1.4.2-1 and pulseaudio-17.0+r43+g3e2bb8a1e-1 are in conflict. Remove pulseaudio? [y/N] 
error: unresolvable package conflicts detected
error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
:: pipewire-pulse-1:1.4.2-1 and pulseaudio-17.0+r43+g3e2bb8a1e-1 are in conflict

Yes:

$ sudo pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 multilib is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
:: pipewire-pulse-1:1.4.2-1 and pulseaudio-17.0+r43+g3e2bb8a1e-1 are in conflict. Remove pulseaudio? [y/N] y
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing pulseaudio breaks dependency 'pulseaudio=17.0+r43+g3e2bb8a1e-1' required by pulseaudio-bluetooth

Ignore:

$ sudo pacman -Syu --ignore pipewire-pulse
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 multilib is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
warning: ignoring package pipewire-pulse-1:1.4.2-1
warning: cannot resolve "pipewire-pulse", a dependency of "cosmic-settings"
:: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies:
      cosmic-settings

:: Do you want to skip the above package for this upgrade? [y/N]

Last edited by ampe00 (2025-04-23 10:41:48)

Lone_Wolf

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Re: [SOLVED] unresolvable package conflicts detected - pipewire-pulse

Cosmic-settings gained a dependency on pipewire-pulse, see https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … 1c728b45a4

You will have to switch from pulseaudio to pipewire, try installing pipewire-audio and pipewire-pulse in one command .

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire#Usage has more info.

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ampe00

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Registered: 2019-06-16

Posts: 10

Re: [SOLVED] unresolvable package conflicts detected - pipewire-pulse

Cosmic-settings gained a dependency on pipewire-pulse, see https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … 1c728b45a4

You will have to switch from pulseaudio to pipewire, try installing pipewire-audio and pipewire-pulse in one command .

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire#Usage has more info.

Hi, thanks for the link. I removed pulseaudio-bluetooth as pipewire-pulse replaces it and everything updates successfully and I still have bluetooth audio. Thanks for the help.