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lang2

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Registered: 2006-02-10

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Why is pacman trying to upgrade arts?

I'm having a problem with pacman -Syu. It says:

:: arts conflicts with kdemod-arts. Remove kdemod-arts? [Y/n] n

But I don't even have arts installed. Why is it doing that?

Thanks,

bender02

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From: UK

Registered: 2007-02-04

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Re: Why is pacman trying to upgrade arts?

I guess you have some package installed which depends on arts. kdemod-arts provides arts, but maybe there has been a recent upgrade... Try to do it with 'pacman --debug', it should show which package exactly is trying to pull in arts.

Cerebral

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Registered: 2005-04-08

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Re: Why is pacman trying to upgrade arts?

I imagine there's something that depends on arts>=somepkgver - if kdemod-arts only provides arts (with no version number) then a versioned dependency on arts will pull in the real package.

lang2

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Registered: 2006-02-10

Posts: 386

Re: Why is pacman trying to upgrade arts?

I did the --debug thing and didn't find anything useful. Here is the output:
debug: check targets vs targets
debug: package 'coreutils' conflicts with 'mktemp'
debug: 'mktemp' is already elected for removal -- skipping
debug: package 'qt' conflicts with 'qt4'
debug: 'qt4' is already elected for removal -- skipping
debug: package 'arts' conflicts with 'kdemod-arts'
debug: found package 'arts-1.5.9-1' in sync
debug: resolving package 'arts' conflict
:: arts conflicts with kdemod-arts. Remove kdemod-arts? [Y/n]

Didn't say who requires arts really. qt4???

I even tried to say Y to all the questions but in the end pacman give up saying cannot satisfy dependency.  dependency hell? Haven't had that in a long time.

lang2

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Registered: 2006-02-10

Posts: 386

Re: Why is pacman trying to upgrade arts?

In the end, I manually removed all kde-mod packages before doing a pacman -Syu and it worked fine.....