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aikidoist72

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From: Australia

Registered: 2005-04-15

Posts: 63

kdebindings-3.4.2-3 error installing

I have tried updating kde from testing and have recieved this error

error: the following file conflicts were found:
  kdebindings: /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7: exists in filesystem
  kdebindings: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7: exists in filesystem

I can not find any info on this via google.  I issued

rm -R /usr/lib/perl5

and installation took place.  I am not who to inform here, so I thought to place a quick write up here 

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Snowman

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: kdebindings-3.4.2-3 error installing

:shock:   You shouldn't  delete whole directories like that unless you're looking for trouble. You should reinstall perl as you almost deleted it completely and lots of package depends on it.

aikidoist72

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From: Australia

Registered: 2005-04-15

Posts: 63

Re: kdebindings-3.4.2-3 error installing

Thanks Snowman,

I reinstalled perl.  Just out of interest, if you look through the packages contained in kdebindings, perl seems to be apart of it now.  Is that correct?

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Snowman

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: kdebindings-3.4.2-3 error installing

I don't use testing but I have some perl stuff in kdebindings.

$ pacman -Ql kdebindings |grep perl
kdebindings /opt/kde/share/sip/qtext/qextscintillalexerperl.sip
kdebindings /usr/lib/perl5/
kdebindings /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/
kdebindings /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i686-linux-thread-multi/
kdebindings /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/
kdebindings /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/
kdebindings /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i686-linux-thread-multi/
kdebindings /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i686-linux-thread-multi/DCOP.pm
kdebindings /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i686-linux-thread-multi/DCOP/
kdebindings /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i686-linux-thread-multi/DCOP/Object.pm
kdebindings /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i686-linux-thread-multi/auto/
kdebindings /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i686-linux-thread-multi/auto/DCOP/
kdebindings /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i686-linux-thread-multi/auto/DCOP/.packlist
kdebindings /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i686-linux-thread-multi/auto/DCOP/DCOP.bs
kdebindings /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i686-linux-thread-multi/auto/DCOP/DCOP.so

The problem you had was a directory conflict which should not happen.  Several peple had this problem with kdebindings.  It could be a problem with kdebindings itsel or a pacman/database problem.

aikidoist72

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From: Australia

Registered: 2005-04-15

Posts: 63

Re: kdebindings-3.4.2-3 error installing

I have had no problems since reinstall which is positive. I usuall don't use testing myself, but decided to  give it a go as I wanted OOO2 and a few other packages. 

So far, testing seems very sturdy, but I am not deluding myself that this will always be the case.  I have not -Syu 'ed my whole system.  I am happy to avoid this by switching testing on and off for full updates. 

Thanks for your reply :-)

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