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jnor

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Registered: 2012-03-21

Posts: 13

Error when reinstalling libtool

Hello :-)

I get some errors I fail to understand:

sudo pacman -S libtool
warning: libtool-2.4.2-4 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets (1): libtool-2.4.2-4

Total Installed Size:   1.28 MiB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
(1/1) checking package integrity                                                                     [############################################################] 100%
(1/1) loading package files                                                                          [############################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts                                                                    [############################################################] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
libtool: /usr/bin/libtool exists in filesystem
libtool: /usr/bin/libtoolize exists in filesystem
libtool: /usr/share/aclocal/argz.m4 exists in filesystem
libtool: /usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4 exists in filesystem
libtool: /usr/share/aclocal/ltdl.m4 exists in filesystem
libtool: /usr/share/aclocal/ltoptions.m4 exists in filesystem
libtool: /usr/share/aclocal/ltsugar.m4 exists in filesystem
libtool: /usr/share/aclocal/ltversion.m4 exists in filesystem
libtool: /usr/share/aclocal/lt~obsolete.m4 exists in filesystem
libtool: /usr/share/info/libtool.info-1.gz exists in filesystem
libtool: /usr/share/info/libtool.info-2.gz exists in filesystem
libtool: /usr/share/info/libtool.info.gz exists in filesystem
libtool: /usr/share/libtool/config/compile exists in filesystem
libtool: /usr/share/libtool/config/config.guess exists in filesystem
libtool: /usr/share/libtool/config/config.sub exists in filesystem
libtool: /usr/share/libtool/config/depcomp exists in filesystem
libtool: /usr/share/libtool/config/install-sh exists in filesystem
libtool: /usr/share/libtool/config/ltmain.sh exists in filesystem
libtool: /usr/share/libtool/config/missing exists in filesystem
libtool: /usr/share/man/man1/libtool.1.gz exists in filesystem
libtool: /usr/share/man/man1/libtoolize.1.gz exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

mcmillan

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Registered: 2006-04-06

Posts: 737

Re: Error when reinstalling libtool

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=56373

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Error when reinstalling libtool

What's the output of

stat -c %s $(find /var/lib/pacman/local -name "libtool-*")/files

?
If it's '0' (zero) or you get an error saying there's no such file, you can try forcing the (re)installation of libtool.

Please use [ code ] tags for posting snippets of code.

like this

Last edited by karol (2012-03-22 00:15:35)

jnor

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Registered: 2012-03-21

Posts: 13

Re: Error when reinstalling libtool

Quick replys !

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=56373

I see, that makes sense. Thank you for the link.

What's the output of

stat -c %s $(find /var/lib/pacman/local -name "libtool-*")/files

?
If it's '0' (zero) or you get an error saying there's no such file, you can try forcing the (re)installation of libtool.

Please use [ code ] tags for posting snippets of code.

like this

The command returns "0"

Okay thanks for the tip, I will use the code tags from now on.

Last edited by jnor (2012-03-22 00:22:22)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Error when reinstalling libtool

That means the metadata database got somehow corrupted. Did you suffer power outage, problems with your harddrive (or whatever you have your Arch installed on)?