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Engelbrekt

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Registered: 2007-11-17

Posts: 38

[Solved] Unable to upgrade cups (conflicting files)

Hi.

I get the following message when I run pacman -Syu

Targets (4): libcups-1.4.1-1  cups-1.4.1-1  ghostscript-8.70-2  foomatic-filters-4.0.3_20090904-2

Total Download Size:    0.00 MB
Total Installed Size:   53.11 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
checking package integrity...
(4/4) checking for file conflicts                   [##################################################################################] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
libcups: /usr/include/cups/driver.h exists in filesystem
cups: /usr/bin/ppdc exists in filesystem
cups: /usr/bin/ppdhtml exists in filesystem
cups: /usr/bin/ppdi exists in filesystem
cups: /usr/bin/ppdmerge exists in filesystem
cups: /usr/bin/ppdpo exists in filesystem
cups: /usr/lib/cups/filter/commandtoescpx exists in filesystem
cups: /usr/lib/cups/filter/commandtopclx exists in filesystem
cups: /usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertoescpx exists in filesystem
cups: /usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertopclx exists in filesystem
cups: /usr/share/man/man1/ppdc.1.gz exists in filesystem
cups: /usr/share/man/man1/ppdhtml.1.gz exists in filesystem
cups: /usr/share/man/man1/ppdi.1.gz exists in filesystem
cups: /usr/share/man/man1/ppdmerge.1.gz exists in filesystem
cups: /usr/share/man/man1/ppdpo.1.gz exists in filesystem
cups: /usr/share/man/man5/ppdcfile.5.gz exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

Hmm. Should I try removing cups first?

Last edited by Engelbrekt (2009-10-21 18:04:14)

grey

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From: Europe

Registered: 2007-08-23

Posts: 679

Re: [Solved] Unable to upgrade cups (conflicting files)

These are cups 1.4.1 files - they weren't there in 1.3.11. Did you do an installation of cups 1.4.* outside of pacman?
What does pacman -Q cups say?

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Engelbrekt

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Registered: 2007-11-17

Posts: 38

Re: [Solved] Unable to upgrade cups (conflicting files)

pacman -Q cups
cups 1.3.11-1

Ahhh, I think I remember now!
I had some problems getting my Samsung printer working so I tried a driver package that had a "stand alone" installer and thus installed files without pacmans knowledge.
It must be those files who are causing the trouble.

Thank you grey for getting me on the right track!