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#1 2005-09-01 19:27:39
- sven
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problem with pacman and kde after trying testing
I fiddled around a bit with removing/adding packages and then uncommented testing in pacman.conf. Then tried to update with pacman -Syu and it listed almost all packets (over 500 MB). I then accepted the renewing and then things went bad 
Kde started to give errors at startup and refuses to start and I removed it and tried to reinstall. Pacman gave a bunch of errors like these:
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error: the following file conflicts were found:
kde-common: /opt: exists in file system
arts: /opt: exists in the file system
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kdeutils: /opt: exists in filesystem
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So it doesn't like /opt and there is a message about it it at every kde package except at kdebindings there is this:
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6: exists in filesystem
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#2 2005-09-01 19:34:34
- phrakture
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Re: problem with pacman and kde after trying testing
hmmmm those are errors against directories... which pacman shouldn't hit... I have no idea...
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#3 2005-09-01 23:47:22
- T-Dawg
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Re: problem with pacman and kde after trying testing
maybe local database file got deleted somehow...
Personally, I don't see any harm in forcing it.
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#4 2005-09-02 05:26:38
- sven
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Re: problem with pacman and kde after trying testing
Forcing it worked nicely, thanks 
But that nagging about dir /opt remained - for example I tried to reinstall Mozilla and got the same error. Used the Force again... If pacman database is somehow messed up, how to fix it?
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