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Weeks

Member

Registered: 2006-01-26

Posts: 91

Problem updating The Gimp?

I ran pacman -Syu which wanted to update The Gimp. And I ran into this error:

checking package integrity... done.
loading package data... done.
checking for file conflicts...
error: the following file conflicts were found:
  gimp: /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/python/gimpenums.pyc: exists in filesystem
  gimp: /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/python/gimpfu.pyc: exists in filesystem

Even when I uninstalled the gimp and tried installing the updated version that appeared. In the end I deleted /usr/share/gimp and /usr/lib/gimp and it updated fine. I thought I'd post it here to let the maintainer (and others) know there's a problem and fix.

aRcHaTe

Member

Registered: 2006-10-24

Posts: 646

Re: Problem updating The Gimp?

pacman -Sf gimp ...if its gimp there is no problm on forcing the install...

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bt

Member

Registered: 2007-04-11

Posts: 198

Re: Problem updating The Gimp?

I just moved both files temporarily to /home/~. Gimp installed fine, and I then removed the moved packages since the new install replaced them with new ones.

Weeks

Member

Registered: 2006-01-26

Posts: 91

Re: Problem updating The Gimp?

I still don't know why that error turned up. I know I can -f it, but that's not usually necessary.

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: Problem updating The Gimp?

You might have wanted to run 'pacman -Qo' on the files to know if they belong to another package.

gooze

Member

Registered: 2007-01-31

Posts: 8

Re: Problem updating The Gimp?

I'v got the same problem and when I run 'pacman -Qo' the answer was:

# pacman -Qo /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/python/gimpenums.pyc
No package owns /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/python/gimpenums.pyc
# pacman -Qo /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/python/gimpfu.pyc
No package owns /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/python/gimpfu.pyc

So I rename the files to /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/python/gimpenums.pyc.old and /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/python/gimpfu.pyc.old and then update my system.

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