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JTD

Member

From: Port Moody,BC

Registered: 2006-06-26

Posts: 27

Upgrade problem

Hi:
I was attempting to upgrade my system after a month of inactivity, and got the following error message.

:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets: curl-7.18.1-2  hunspell-1.2.2-2  enchant-1.4.1-2  fltk-1.1.9-1
         gpm-1.20.3-1  kdemod-kde-common-3.5.9-3  qt3-enhanced-3.3.8-23
         kdemod-arts-1.5.9-3  libxml2-2.6.32-1  libxslt-1.1.23-1
         kdemod-kdelibs-3.5.9-5  kdemod-kdebase-3.5.9-4
         kdemod-kdegraphics-base-3.5.9-3  poppler-0.8.2-1  poppler-qt3-0.8.2-1
         kdemod-kdegraphics-kpdf-3.5.9-3  kdemod-kdepim-base-3.5.9-3
         kdemod-kdepim-kaddressbook-3.5.9-3  kdemod-kdepim-kmail-3.5.9-3
         tar-1.20-2

Total Download Size:   208.83 MB
Total Installed Size:   208.83 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
checking package integrity...
(20/20) checking for file conflicts                 [#######################] 100%
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 rebooted after the downloading and got the same message.

Any ideas?

Thanks.
JTD

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,937

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Re: Upgrade problem

read the news.
http://www.archlinux.org/news/391/

pacman -Sf gpm

Last edited by wonder (2008-05-06 14:44:17)

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JTD

Member

From: Port Moody,BC

Registered: 2006-06-26

Posts: 27

Re: Upgrade problem

read the news.
http://www.archlinux.org/news/391/

pacman -Sf gpm

Thanks!

JTD