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Mclarenf1905

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Registered: 2009-10-13

Posts: 3

Pacman Problem Tar.xz

I need to be able to unarchive tar.xz files to upgrade anything in pacman however, when I try to update pacman I get this:
:: The following packages should be upgraded first :
    pacman 
:: Do you want to cancel the current operation
:: and upgrade these packages now? [Y/n] Y

resolving dependencies...
warning: provider package was selected (xz provides xz-utils)
looking for inter-conflicts...
:: xz conflicts with lzma-utils. Remove lzma-utils? [Y/n] Y
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: yelp: requires lzma-utils>=4.32.7

and If I try to upgrade yelp, I need to be able to extract tar.xz, how can I fix this?

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: Pacman Problem Tar.xz

that can be questionable.

1) bug in xz packaging because it doesn't provide lzma-utils=$pkgver
2) bug in yelp because it has a versioned dependency.

EDIT LATER: no idea what yelp you have but now it doesn't have any lzma-utils dependency. As a quick fix, remove yelp

Last edited by wonder (2010-06-01 19:15:26)

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Ramses de Norre

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From: Leuven - Belgium

Registered: 2007-03-27

Posts: 1,289

Re: Pacman Problem Tar.xz

Try to upgrade yelp first (pacman -S yelp), afterwards you should be able to -Suy and remove lzma-utils as the current yelp doesn't depend on that package.

JGC

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Registered: 2003-12-03

Posts: 1,664

Re: Pacman Problem Tar.xz

Easiest fix here is to remove yelp, upgrade pacman, install yelp.