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davide

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Registered: 2010-12-06

Posts: 18

Pacman upgrade - file conflict on lorcon

On last upgrade, pacman stopped because of a file conflict:

lorcon: /usr/share/man/man3/lorcon.3.gz exists in filesystem

What I did:

# pacman -R lorcon-old-svn pylorcon aircrack-ng-scripts
# pacman -S lorcon python2-pylorcon aircrack-ng-scripts

Then everything worked out properly.
I guess theese packages were renamed, but pacman did not ask me "Do you want to replace lorcon-old-svn with lorcon?", unlike other times.
Don't know if this was the expected behavior, anyway I'm posting in case someone needs.

Regards
Davide

fsckd

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Registered: 2009-06-15

Posts: 4,173

Re: Pacman upgrade - file conflict on lorcon

Was just fixed.
http://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/ … d3e9b1f1b1

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imk

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Registered: 2012-02-11

Posts: 2

Re: Pacman upgrade - file conflict on lorcon

Hello I'm facing a problem..
I just installed archlinux
i ran
# pacman -Syu command
pacman has downloaded the packages but it is not installing the packages...
it showing error msg...

error: failed to commit transaction(conflicting files)
file system: /etc/mtab exists in filesystem
initscripts: /etc/profile.d/locale.sh exists in filesystem
Errors occurred,no package were upgraded

Plz tell me what to do...

Last edited by imk (2012-02-11 18:42:41)

desm0tes

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Registered: 2012-02-04

Posts: 233

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Re: Pacman upgrade - file conflict on lorcon

This is considered thread hijacking, so please open a thread of your own.
Anyway, since it's easily solved, I'll just answer:

pacman -Syu will update your database and install updates
pacman -S package will install a package
There is no package called "syu", so you get an error.

And you can't link a local image in an online forum.

Last edited by desm0tes (2012-02-11 18:41:52)

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Pacman upgrade - file conflict on lorcon

imk, please post the exact commands you run - you sure didn't run 'pacman -S syu command'.

Some real output would be nice too.

And please open a new thread.