[SOLVED]pacman update error - conflicting files

brainard52 · 2012-04-16 03:17:40

Whenever I run pacman, it says that pacman itself needs to be updated first. When I agree to update, it ends in an error;

glibc: /usr/bin/tzselect exists in filesystem
glibc: /usr/bin/zdump exists in filesystem
glibc: /usr/bin/zic exists in filesystem

Last edited by brainard52 (2012-04-17 01:38:45)

dodo3773 · 2012-04-16 03:28:23

I am pretty sure this solution has been posted a few times:

sudo pacman -S pacman

Or install the problem packages first and then update.
Make sure to search well before posting.

karol · 2012-04-16 11:50:00

I think commenting out the SyncFirst option in pacman.conf fixes this until this option is removed altogether.

Last edited by karol (2012-04-16 11:50:14)

brainard52 · 2012-04-16 14:20:01

You're saying that I need to install pacman manually then?

karol · 2012-04-16 15:05:50

brainard52 wrote:

You're saying that I need to install pacman manually then?

Depends what you mean 'manually'.

brainard52 wrote:

Whenever I run pacman, it says that pacman itself needs to be updated first. When I agree to update, it ends in an error;

And if you don't agree?

dodo3773 · 2012-04-16 15:31:26

brainard52 wrote:

You're saying that I need to install pacman manually then?

What I am saying is install the pacman update first and then update your system. There are times when I have had to manually install dependencies first before building programs as well (regardless of Gnu / Linux distro; it is just necessary sometimes (automatic dependency handling is not perfect)). Make a mental note for future reference. Also please remember to mark this thread as solved if the above solution worked for you. In case you don't know how yet: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=484809

brainard52 · 2012-04-16 16:39:57

karol wrote:

brainard52 wrote:
You're saying that I need to install pacman manually then?
Depends what you mean 'manually'.

pacman -U [packagename]

karol wrote:

brainard52 wrote:
Whenever I run pacman, it says that pacman itself needs to be updated first. When I agree to update, it ends in an error;
And if you don't agree?

I haven't tried yet. I wasn't sure what would happen if I ignored the error.

dodo3773 wrote:

What I am saying is install the pacman update first and then update your system. There are times when I have had to manually install dependencies first before building programs as well (regardless of Gnu / Linux distro; it is just necessary sometimes (automatic dependency handling is not perfect)). Make a mental note for future reference. Also please remember to mark this thread as solved if the above solution worked for you. In case you don't know how yet: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=484809

I haven't tried this yet. I'll get on it this afternoon when I have internet again. And yes, I know about marking a thread as solved. Thanks though.

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karol · 2012-04-16 16:47:30

brainard52 wrote:

karol wrote:
brainard52 wrote:
Whenever I run pacman, it says that pacman itself needs to be updated first. When I agree to update, it ends in an error;
And if you don't agree?
I haven't tried yet. I wasn't sure what would happen if I ignored the error.

If you update everything at the same time (as opposed to updating pacman first) you shouldn't be getting any errors.

brainard52 · 2012-04-16 20:08:22

I used pacman -Syu. I didn't even think to try to bypass the updating pacman first. I'll try that first, then sudo pacman -S pacman, and after that, I'll install the update via pacman -U

dodo3773 · 2012-04-16 20:12:37

brainard52 wrote:

I used pacman -Syu. I didn't even think to try to bypass the updating pacman first. I'll try that first, then sudo pacman -S pacman, and after that, I'll install the update via pacman -U

No idea where you got the "pacman -U" idea from. That is for installing a local package that is already on your machine. After you do pacman -S pacman just do a -Syu.

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brainard52 · 2012-04-16 20:39:06

pacman -S pacman results in my initial error and pacman -Syu bypassing the pacman update results in
filesystem: /etc/mtab exists in filesystem
initscripts: /etc/profile.d/locale.sh exists in filesystem

I tested pacman -Qo /etc/mtab and pacman -Qo /etc/profile.d/locale.sh and both came up as "error: No package owns *packagename*" . I also tried the same for the initial errors, and they came up as being owned by txdata 2012h-1. I tried pacman -Si tzdata and it says the ersion I have installed is 2012c-1, not 2012h-1.

will "pacman dep level - testdb, shared lib level - findbrokenpkgs or lddd" fix anything? I found it on the pacman rosetta.

EDIT: I fixed it. I figured that updating tzdata would fix the problem and it did. I then ran pacman -S pacman, and it updated that too. Now to update the rest of my system.

Last edited by brainard52 (2012-04-17 01:08:56)

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[SOLVED]pacman update error - conflicting files

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