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hbarnwheeler

Member

Registered: 2006-08-11

Posts: 37

File conflicts when upgrading pacman

My Arch system has not been upgraded in a few months as it has been out of commission.  I turned it on today and decided I should do a full system upgrade.  When I do so, pacman prompts me to upgrade pacman itself first, so I agree, and the upgrade errors out with the following message:

checking for file conflicts...
error: the following file conflicts were found:
     pacman: /etc/pacman.d/testing: exists in filesystem

What do I do?

shining

Pacman Developer

Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: File conflicts when upgrading pacman

Move this file out of pacman way

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pacman roulette : pacman -S $(pacman -Slq | LANG=C sort -R | head -n $((RANDOM % 10)))