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kandrews

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Registered: 2007-04-21

Posts: 119

pacman -S snownews cannot resolve dependency perl-libxslt

I am getting this dependency resolution error when I try to install snownews:

resolving dependencies...
error: cannot resolve dependencies for "snownews" ("perl-libxslt" is not in the package set)
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: snownews requires perl-libxslt

dolby

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From: 1992

Registered: 2006-08-08

Posts: 1,581

Re: pacman -S snownews cannot resolve dependency perl-libxslt

theres some rearranging going on with the perl packages. i verify that too that pkg is not in db. make a bug report.

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Cerebral

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From: Waterloo, ON, CA

Registered: 2005-04-08

Posts: 3,108

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Re: pacman -S snownews cannot resolve dependency perl-libxslt

it's been renamed perl-xml-libxslt I think

High|ander

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From: Skövde, Sweden

Registered: 2005-10-28

Posts: 188

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Re: pacman -S snownews cannot resolve dependency perl-libxslt

Here is the latest PKGBUILD for snownews that fixes the dep-problem:

# Maintainer: Sergej Pupykin <ps@lx-ltd.ru>
# Contributor: Christoph 'delmonico' Neuroth <delmonico@gmx.net>
pkgname=snownews
pkgver=1.5.7
pkgrel=3
pkgdesc="Text mode RSS newsreader for Linux and Unix."
url="http://kiza.kcore.de/software/snownews/"
depends=('libxml2' 'ncurses' 'perl-xml-libxml' 'perl-xml-libxslt')
arch=(i686)
source=(http://kiza.kcore.de/software/snownews/download/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz)
md5sums=('75ffa004e755a233f49b1cdfcd9e3d85')

build() {
  cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
  ./configure --prefix=$startdir/pkg/usr --charset=UTF-8
  make || return 1
  make install
}

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