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Bes

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Registered: 2007-06-20

Posts: 79

Is it safe to do this....?

Hi

I ran a pacman -Syu today and got the following:
checking package integrity...
(281/281) 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
mime-types: /etc/mime.types exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

Am I safe to remove these existing files that are blocking me upgrading?

Thanks

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: Is it safe to do this....?

Yep, those are not critical -- there should be nothing inside /usr/local/share/man (perhaps a whatis file that'll get regenerated anyway by cron) and I'm quite sure /etc/mime.types only contains Java Web Start stuff.
You could also run pacman -Syuf; it'll overwrite conflicting files.

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Bes

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Registered: 2007-06-20

Posts: 79

Re: Is it safe to do this....?

Cool thanks...