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chrispoole

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Registered: 2008-12-30

Posts: 121

[SOLVED] Error: boo.lang exists in filesystem

I tried running a system update with pacman -Syu.

Grabs all the packages successfully, then shows this at the end:

error: could not prepare transaction
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
boo: /usr/share/gtksourceview-1.0/language-specs/boo.lang exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

If anyone could give me advice as to what to do, I'd be grateful.

The only forum thread I can find similar to this issues is this one, but isn't quite my issue (I don't think).

Thanks.

Last edited by chrispoole (2009-02-21 15:55:40)

u_no_hu

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Registered: 2008-06-15

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Re: [SOLVED] Error: boo.lang exists in filesystem

The solution is a sticky thread.

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chrispoole

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Registered: 2008-12-30

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Re: [SOLVED] Error: boo.lang exists in filesystem

I'm sorry, I don't know what you mean?

piccolotux

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Registered: 2008-04-22

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Re: [SOLVED] Error: boo.lang exists in filesystem

I quote chrispoole. Whre's the sticky thread? No solution till now?

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tdy

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From: Sacremende

Registered: 2008-12-14

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Re: [SOLVED] Error: boo.lang exists in filesystem

Sticky: pacman error: FILENAME exists in filesystem

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chrispoole

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Registered: 2008-12-30

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Re: [SOLVED] Error: boo.lang exists in filesystem

Sticky: pacman error: FILENAME exists in filesystem

Thanks for this.

I had searched around, but found nothing (perhaps searching for the wrong line).

However, I'm surprised that this issue with pacman is in a sticky thread in the newbie forum, not the pacman forum.

Anyway, I checked the ownership, removed the file, ran the upgrade, and all is ok. Thanks.

Inxsible

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

Posts: 9,183

Re: [SOLVED] Error: boo.lang exists in filesystem

Good that it works for you. Can you please mark your thread as Solved. Edit the first post and change the title. Add [SOLVED] at the beginning

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