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EmyrB

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From: Wales, UK

Registered: 2006-09-04

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gpm: /usr/lib/libgpm.so.1 exists in filesystem

Hi all,

Ran pacman -Syu today and I get the following error: -

error: could not prepare transaction
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
gpm: /usr/lib/libgpm.so.1 exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

I tried a google search and a search of this forum but no results.

Any ideas?

Cheers

EmyrB

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toofishes

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From: Chicago, IL

Registered: 2006-06-06

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Re: gpm: /usr/lib/libgpm.so.1 exists in filesystem

http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev … 05907.html

EmyrB

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From: Wales, UK

Registered: 2006-09-04

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Re: gpm: /usr/lib/libgpm.so.1 exists in filesystem

Cheers for that toofishes. So how do I get around it? Do I delete it?

Cheers

EmyrB

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dolby

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Re: gpm: /usr/lib/libgpm.so.1 exists in filesystem

force the upgrade
man pacman

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bender02

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Re: gpm: /usr/lib/libgpm.so.1 exists in filesystem

Next time, you could also try searching the bugtracker.
EDIT: No offense meant, I had to learn this as well

Last edited by bender02 (2008-04-24 14:09:20)

EmyrB

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From: Wales, UK

Registered: 2006-09-04

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Re: gpm: /usr/lib/libgpm.so.1 exists in filesystem

Next time, you could also try searching the bugtracker.
EDIT: No offense meant, I had to learn this as well

No offense taken

Next time I will take a look, I just thought I'd borked up my system as usual

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toofishes

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Re: gpm: /usr/lib/libgpm.so.1 exists in filesystem

force the upgrade
man pacman

I hate blanket advice like this without explanation. Forcing is not usually a good idea. Why not something more like this:
Since there is only one file that is conflicting, you can manually delete it and then try the upgrade again. If there were quite a few files that conflicted, you should be sure you know what you are doing and then pacman -Sf just that one package, and then your normal -Sy will work fine.

shining

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Registered: 2006-05-10

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Re: gpm: /usr/lib/libgpm.so.1 exists in filesystem

Since there is only one file that is conflicting, you can manually delete it and then try the upgrade again. If there were quite a few files that conflicted, you should be sure you know what you are doing and then pacman -Sf just that one package, and then your normal -Sy will work fine.

Now, if some Arch users could learn that and repeat it to others, it would be ideal.

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dolby

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Re: gpm: /usr/lib/libgpm.so.1 exists in filesystem

force the upgrade
man pacman

I hate blanket advice like this without explanation. Forcing is not usually a good idea. Why not something more like this:
Since there is only one file that is conflicting, you can manually delete it and then try the upgrade again. If there were quite a few files that conflicted, you should be sure you know what you are doing and then pacman -Sf just that one package, and then your normal -Sy will work fine.

i just rephrased what the maintainer of the package said on the mailing list http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev … 05907.html giving the two imo crucial pointers. users are responsible for maintaining their own system.

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gnu_D

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From: Macedonia

Registered: 2007-10-21

Posts: 46

Re: gpm: /usr/lib/libgpm.so.1 exists in filesystem

Hi, the deleting of the file /usr/lib/libgpm.so.1/usr/lib/libgpm.so.1 helped me to fix the system.

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B-Con

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Re: gpm: /usr/lib/libgpm.so.1 exists in filesystem

If you want to trouble-shoot such a problem yourself:

$ pacman -Qo /usr/lib/libgpm.so.1

The file was unassociated with any package. This is obviously a bug.

$ls -l /usr/lib/libgpm.so.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2008-02-01 13:45 /usr/lib/libgpm.so.1 -> libgpm.so.1.19.0

Turns out it's a symbolic link, not even a file.

Conclusion: Move the file and then perform the upgrade. After X time passes, you can likely consider safely deleting it.

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jonkristian

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Re: gpm: /usr/lib/libgpm.so.1 exists in filesystem

Why not do a pacman -Rd gpm and re-install after upgrade?

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shining

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Re: gpm: /usr/lib/libgpm.so.1 exists in filesystem

Why not do a pacman -Rd gpm and re-install after upgrade?

The file was unassociated with any package. This is obviously a bug.

So -Rd gpm won't remove the file.

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