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gallow

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Registered: 2009-07-12

Posts: 9

New to arch: pacman -Syu fails. Now some other things are too. hmmm

Q:  Will time fix my problem- ie, wait for mirrors to fully update (although the repository thread says my mirror is only 5 hours out of date), or do I have something more serious going on?

I first became concerned when a game stopped working:

wine warcraft.exe
  (wine spam...)
err:ole:OLEPictureImpl_LoadJpeg Failed reading JPEG because unable to find libjpeg.so.62
err:ole:OleLoadPicture IPersistStream_Load failed

I decide I need to look into libjpeg.so.62.  I was going to use Shaman to search the repos, but it had crashed, wasn't running.  Restarting it causes:

[user@archlinux ~]$ shaman
shaman: error while loading shared libraries: libalpm.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Looks like I should update/reinstall shaman.

[root@archlinux ~]# pacman -Sy shaman
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
 kdemod-core is up to date
 kdemod-extragear is up to date
resolving dependencies...
warning: cannot resolve "pacman<3.3", a dependency of "shaman"
:: the following package(s) cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies:
      shaman

Do you want to skip the above package(s) for this upgrade? [Y/n] n
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: shaman: requires pacman<3.3

Ok, there is definitely something going on.  Probably a good time to update, make sure I'm current

root@archlinux ~]# pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
 kdemod-core is up to date
 kdemod-extragear is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
:: Replace phonon with extra/qt? [Y/n] Y
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
:: qt conflicts with qtmod. Remove qtmod? [Y/n] Y
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: kdemod-kde-common: requires qtmod>=4.5.1
:: kdemod-kdelibs: requires qtmod>=4.5.1
:: kdemod-kdelibs: requires phonon>=4.3.0

Statix

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From: Hangzhou, China

Registered: 2008-02-16

Posts: 240

Re: New to arch: pacman -Syu fails. Now some other things are too. hmmm

Avoid upgrading individual packages with pacman -Sy. That is what causes the library errors like you got in your first two errors. If you want to upgrade it is best just to do a full Syu.

For the third error, it looks like shaman does not support the newest pacman so will not upgrade. You can either remove shaman for now and wait for an update, or not update pacman. (The latter, perhaps, is not the best idea.)

The last errors are because kdemod is supposed to be above all the other repos in your /etc/pacman.conf. If it's not above them then Syu will try to replace all the modded kde/qt pacakges with the originals.

Hopefully you'll be able to upgrade after all that! Good luck.

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gallow

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Registered: 2009-07-12

Posts: 9

Re: New to arch: pacman -Syu fails. Now some other things are too. hmmm

Thanks for your response.

Any suggestions for fixing the libjpeg.so.62 error?

Also, unfortunately the -Syu errors are not related to the location of kdemod repos in pacman.conf.  Reordering them as you suggested simply changes it like this:

[root@archlinus ~]# pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 kdemod-core is up to date
 kdemod-extragear is up to date
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
:: Replace phonon with extra/qt? [Y/n] Y
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
:: qt conflicts with qtmod. Remove qtmod? [Y/n] Y
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: kdemod-kde-common: requires qtmod>=4.5.1
:: kdemod-kdelibs: requires qtmod>=4.5.1
:: kdemod-kdelibs: requires phonon>=4.3.0

benob

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Registered: 2008-11-11

Posts: 187

Re: New to arch: pacman -Syu fails. Now some other things are too. hmmm

Maybe you should temporarily uninstall the conflicting packages, and then reinstall them after on.
As for libjpeg, i believe that some wine libraries have not been updated to the latest version (therefore, you'll need to wait).

Skripka

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From: 2X1280X1024

Registered: 2009-02-19

Posts: 555

Re: New to arch: pacman -Syu fails. Now some other things are too. hmmm

Shaman is broken as of now, due to the update of Pacman to 3.3.0

To use Shaman, you'll need to wait until the KDEMod folks release a new version of it.

Also, KDEMod is currently in a bad place due to dependency hell with Arch-Extra, and package splitting....I'm not surprised Pacman is spitting back errors about KDEMod right now.

Last edited by Skripka (2009-08-06 03:56:23)

sfabius

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Registered: 2007-07-07

Posts: 157

Re: New to arch: pacman -Syu fails. Now some other things are too. hmmm

Old thread I know, but one thing that tripped me up was that my repos in pacman.conf were the old kdemod ones, and I kept getting this error because my repos weren't updating. Go to http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KDEmod to get the right ones.
Just thought it might help someone out.