Error in installing packages

varaahan · 2009-01-02 02:08:22

I tried to install digikam but pacman returned "Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded."
How to find the errors ?

djnm · 2009-01-02 02:09:50

check /var/log/pacman.log if pacman does not output them

Allan · 2009-01-02 02:52:37

The errors are actually printed to the screen...

varaahan · 2009-01-02 16:18:19

cat /var/log/pacman.log does not give any tangible result.
The o/p of pacman is quite long and unsuitable for post.
I find no errors reported but for the last error msg.

Mr Green · 2009-01-02 16:22:48

Post the error from pacman I will clean up output :-)

tdy · 2009-01-02 16:23:46

varaahan wrote:

The o/p of pacman is quite long and unsuitable for post.

Use "code" tags and it should be fine.

varaahan · 2009-01-02 16:31:16

The o/p of /var/log/pacmna.log for current day is:

[2008-12-30 18:56] removed esd (0.2.38-3)
[2009-01-02 07:35] synchronizing package lists
[2009-01-02 21:45] synchronizing package lists
[2009-01-02 21:48] upgraded alsa-lib (1.0.16-1 -> 1.0.18-1)
[2009-01-02 21:48] installed esound (0.2.41-1)

I could not copy the error msgs on pacman -S digikam .

Allan · 2009-01-02 16:37:08

We can not help without the output... The actual cause of the error will be in there.

Mr Green · 2009-01-02 16:37:45

how about pacman -S digikam > error.txt ? then post error.txt

Allan · 2009-01-02 16:41:45

Mr Green wrote:

how about pacman -S digikam > error.txt ? then post error.txt

Try "pacman -S digikam &> error.txt" so stderr gets pointed to the file too.

Mr Green · 2009-01-02 16:47:49

ooops :-)

varaahan · 2009-01-03 13:02:39

bash-3.2# pacman -S digikam>error.txt
Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)

Mr Green · 2009-01-03 13:30:58

try using

pacman -S digikam &> error.txt

without any error we cannot help you

varaahan · 2009-01-03 13:44:24

That makes the shell hang.
No o/p is obtained.

Allan · 2009-01-03 13:54:14

Add a noconfirm there:

pacman -S --noconfirm digikam &> error.txt

varaahan · 2009-01-07 16:24:47

That returns nothing and returned to bash.

[sridhar@myhost ~]$ su
Password:
bash-3.2# pacman -S --noconfirm digikam &> error.txt
bash-3.2#

Allan · 2009-01-07 16:36:56

OK...... what is in error.txt?

andre.ramaciotti · 2009-01-07 16:42:11

Now put the content of error.txt here between code tags

edit: Allan was quicker... I shouldn't open so many tabs at the same time

Last edited by andre.ramaciotti (2009-01-07 16:42:53)

varaahan · 2009-01-08 02:01:56

contents of error.txt is:

resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
Proceed with installation? [Y/n]

SamC · 2009-01-08 04:06:26

varaahan: Are you sure it ran with --noconfirm?

Allan · 2009-01-08 04:10:04

Post the whole output. You should have a targets line, information about the download size, etc...

varaahan · 2009-01-08 14:53:19

That's a whole long file, yet I append it here.

resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
Targets: kdelibs3-3.5.10-2 libxvmc-1.0.4-1 xine-lib-1.1.15-4
kaffeine-0.8.7-1

Total Download Size: 0.00 MB
Total Installed Size: 83.39 MB

checking package integrity...
checking for file conflicts...
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
error: could not prepare transaction

Note :
I could not post the full file content since that is not possible. So I had to edit the relevant portitons only. The file size is about 465 Kb.

bash-3.2# ls -al /home/sridhar/error.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 476461 Jan 8 07:23 /home/sridhar/error.txt

Hope this helps !

Mr Green · 2009-01-08 15:00:48

Email the file as an attachment to me I will take a look at it

Allan · 2009-01-08 15:02:26

varaahan wrote:

error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
error: could not prepare transaction

That is the relevant line... but you cut out what is actually conflicting so we can not help you.

varaahan · 2009-01-09 13:16:44

Mr Green :

The file could not be copied to the email .
If I have the personal email , I can send it.

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