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paulfxh

Member

Registered: 2008-03-11

Posts: 31

Upgrade errors & file conflicts: what now?

I just came back to my ArchLinux install today after an enforced absence of a couple of months.
So, I tried an update using

pacman -Syu

as root.
About 350 MB of downloads were required and it seemed to be going fine.
Then I get this message:

checking package integrity...
(179/179) 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.

Can somebody please help me interpret what is required to get things back on track?

Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

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Re: Upgrade errors & file conflicts: what now?

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

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paulfxh

Member

Registered: 2008-03-11

Posts: 31

Re: Upgrade errors & file conflicts: what now?

Thank you.
That fixed my problem.