Pacman - Could not prepare transaction (VLC, mplayer)

dmz · 2008-08-28 16:05:05

When I am trying to install vlc or mplayer, I am getting these errors:

(17/17) checking for file conflicts                 [##########################################] 100%
error: could not prepare transaction
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
libgl: /usr/lib/libGL.so exists in filesystem
libgl: /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 exists in filesystem
libgl: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

What to do?

Misfit138 · 2008-08-28 16:07:34

Check this out.

dmz · 2008-08-28 16:40:45

Misfit138 wrote:

Check this out.

Hm, I've done a full upgrade now, but the problem still remains? I've also renamed those files that "exists in filesystem". Still getting the same errors though..

Last edited by dmz (2008-08-28 16:45:28)

dmz · 2008-08-28 16:48:33

Allright, I did pacman -Sf vlc and it installed just fine. Just curious though, why does these problems appear? Seems kind of common.

ghostHack · 2008-08-28 17:28:15

Most of the time this seems to happen because people install the nvidia drivers from the nvidia website rather than through 'pacman -S nvidia'.

The nvidia drivers provide their own version of the libGL library, if you use pacman to install the driver then it knows that you also have libGL and doesn't try to install the seperate libgl package as a dependancy of mplayer/vlc. If you install the drivers from nvidia then pacman doesn't know that you already have libgl and tries to insall the seperate package but can't because it sees that those files already exist on your system.

dmz · 2008-08-28 17:39:47

Allright, thanks for the explanation ghosthack, that's exactly what I did.

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#1 2008-08-28 16:05:05

Pacman - Could not prepare transaction (VLC, mplayer)

#2 2008-08-28 16:07:34

Re: Pacman - Could not prepare transaction (VLC, mplayer)

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