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helmut

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Registered: 2008-10-10

Posts: 65

How to resolve conflicting files when updating via "pacman -Syu"?

When updating my system via "pacman -Syu" I get the following file conflicts. How can I resolve the conflicts? Just remove the offending files?

checking package integrity...
(494/494) 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.
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Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

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Re: How to resolve conflicting files when updating via "pacman -Syu"?

Already answered in your other thread (http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=83961).   There is no need to open another one.  Closing.

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