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Mr Green

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2003-12-21

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Problem with upgrading Avahi....[Solved]

upgrading avahi... 
could not extract usr/include/howl: Is a directory
errors occurred while upgrading avahi
done.

I had to to run -Suf several times to get over this one ... wondering now how to get rid of the problem

clear package from cache?

Last edited by Mr Green (2007-03-20 08:37:47)

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Mr Green

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From: Arizona

Registered: 2006-03-20

Posts: 387

Re: Problem with upgrading Avahi....[Solved]

Try this:

# pacman -Rd avahi
# pacman -S avahi

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Mr Green

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2003-12-21

Posts: 5,896

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Re: Problem with upgrading Avahi....[Solved]

Targets: avahi-0.6.17-1

Total Package Size:   0.6 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:
  avahi: /usr/include/howl: exists in filesystem


errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

Ok I removed /usr/include/howl ... tried again & it loaded

Thanks for your help .....;-)

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Mr Green