GPM upgrade

Slammer64 · 2008-05-01 16:48:31

Getting an error message after trying to upgrade to the new version of gpm: 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. Anyone have any ideas?

UnplayedNamer · 2008-05-01 16:57:48

You have to force the upgrade.
The answer is right in front of you: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=47981

bender02 · 2008-05-01 17:32:20

Without any offense: it's generally a good idea to first search the forums, bugtracker and have a look at the frontpage news, before you post.

Ink-Jet · 2008-05-01 17:36:11

Damn, that was fast.
Thanks, guys, I was wondering how to fix this.

ozar · 2008-05-01 17:48:55

bender02 wrote:

Without any offense: it's generally a good idea to first search the forums, bugtracker and have a look at the frontpage news, before you post.

Yep, I always enter the website via the frontpage for that very reason. Doing so has saved me some headaches several times.

Slammer64 · 2008-05-01 18:47:14

It wasn't on the front page when I posted, but I'm glad it's fixed regardless. And since I was the only one to post on the bugtracker...........go figure?

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bender02 · 2008-05-01 18:57:46

Slammer64 wrote:

It wasn't on the front page when I posted, but I'm glad it's fixed regardless. And since I was the only one to post on the bugtracker...........go figure?

A search for libgpm.so.1 on the forums returns 2 couple of days older threads where exactly your question is asked.

There's a bug (referenced on the news) on the bugtracker about this issue. The only problem is that it's been already closed when this hit the news - so use advanced search and search for closed bugs as well.

Slammer64 · 2008-05-01 19:03:26

It was my bug that was closed. Seems like folks here are getting mightly unfriendly, telling folks to go RTFM............sounds almost like a Debian forum.

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bender02 · 2008-05-01 19:12:50

Ah Slammer64: by "some folks" - you mean me - so be concrete! No one else in this thread has RTFM attitude towards you.

You say you couldn't figure it out with the available search tools, and I pointed out that you're wrong. Next thing you do is shout "some folks have RTFM attitude!". Go figure.

Just to make it more concrete, a search for "libgpm.so.1" returns 6 threads, one is this and there are other two which talk about the same issue
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=47607
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=47640

The bug referenced on the front page is FS#9949 - not yours, it's been there for a while.

Slammer64 · 2008-05-01 19:18:27

My apologies bender02. I was wrong and I'll admit that. However, those posts were several days old and I wouldn't have known whether they applied to my system since I just did a fresh install yesterday. In the meantime, all is well, so end of story.

bender02 · 2008-05-01 19:24:23

Yea, sorry, I admit I had a bit of a RTFM attitude.

That gpm package went through testing repo, so first issues started to appear several days ago

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