Arch Linux

kolcon

Member

Registered: 2009-02-01

Posts: 21

pacman keeps installing the same packages

when I do pacman -Syu, it always wants to install:

# pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
testing is up to date
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets (10): brltty-3.10-1  dmidecode-2.10-1  gstreamer0.10-good-0.10.11-1  libsoup-2.24.3-1 
              gstreamer0.10-good-plugins-0.10.11-1  gstreamer0.10-ugly-0.10.10-1  gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins-0.10.10-1 
              libtheora-1.0-1  poppler-0.10.2-1  poppler-glib-0.10.2-1 

Total Download Size:    0.00 MB
Total Installed Size:   30.17 MB

but

# pacman -Q brltty
brltty 3.10-1

Why?

shining

Pacman Developer

Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: pacman keeps installing the same packages

Whats the output of : ls -ld /var/lib/pacman/local/brltty*

---

pacman roulette : pacman -S $(pacman -Slq | LANG=C sort -R | head -n $((RANDOM % 10)))

kolcon

Member

Registered: 2009-02-01

Posts: 21

Re: pacman keeps installing the same packages

# ls -ld /var/lib/pacman/local/brltty*
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 43 2009-02-01 18:36 /var/lib/pacman/local/brltty-3.10-1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 43 2008-09-03 22:05 /var/lib/pacman/local/brltty-3.9-1

shining

Pacman Developer

Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: pacman keeps installing the same packages

Remove the duplicated directories (only keep one for each package), then reinstall all these problematic packages.

---

pacman roulette : pacman -S $(pacman -Slq | LANG=C sort -R | head -n $((RANDOM % 10)))

kolcon

Member

Registered: 2009-02-01

Posts: 21

Re: pacman keeps installing the same packages

OK, that helped. Question is still how the duplications got there...