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indoultimate

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Registered: 2008-06-10

Posts: 9

(solved) upgrade failed

while doing pacman -Syu i am having this
Targets: kernel-headers-2.6.25.6-1  tzdata-2008c-1  glibc-2.8-2  binutils-2.18-8  coreutils-6.12-1  filesystem-2008.06-2  findutils-4.4.0-1 
         gcc-libs-4.3.1-1  gcc-4.3.1-1  imlib2-1.4.1-1  kernel26-2.6.25.6-1  mlocate-0.20-2  nvidia-utils-173.14.05-1  nvidia-173.14.05-4 
         openoffice-base-2.4.1-1  opera-9.50-1  virtualbox-ose-additions-modules-1.6.2-5  virtualbox-ose-xorg-drivers-1.6.2-2  vlc-0.8.6h-3 
         wget-1.11.3-1 

Total Download Size:    0.00 MB
Total Installed Size:   531.78 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
checking package integrity...
(20/20) checking for file conflicts                 [####################################################################################] 100%
error: could not prepare transaction
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
filesystem: /usr/local/share/man exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

what should i do?
thanks

Last edited by indoultimate (2008-06-21 14:28:05)

Allan

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Re: (solved) upgrade failed

what is in the /usr/local/share/man directory?

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indoultimate

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Registered: 2008-06-10

Posts: 9

Re: (solved) upgrade failed

what is in the /usr/local/share/man directory?

thanks for your fast reply,
i already solve it, i rename the /usr/local/share/man to other name,and then the pacman -Syu work!
thank u