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deex

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Registered: 2012-08-26

Posts: 2

need help with pacman

hello

first of all - sorry for my english

i updated pacman some days ago and got many troubles
Part of troubles i was solved, but now i have this errors:

1. sudo pacman -S pidgin-otr / or install curl or something else..

perl-xml-parser: /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/XML/Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-5.enc exists in filesystem
perl-xml-parser: /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/XML/Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-7.enc exists in filesystem
perl-xml-parser: /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/XML/Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-8.enc exists in filesystem
perl-xml-parser: /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/XML/Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-9.enc exists in filesystem
perl-xml-parser: /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/XML/Parser/Encodings/koi8-r.enc exists in filesystem
...
perl-xml-parser: /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/XML/Parser/Style/Objects.pm exists in filesystem
perl-xml-parser: /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/XML/Parser/Style/Stream.pm exists in filesystem
perl-xml-parser: /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/XML/Parser/Style/Subs.pm exists in filesystem
perl-xml-parser: /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/XML/Parser/Style/Tree.pm exists in filesystem
perl-xml-parser: /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/XML/Parser/Expat/Expat.bs exists in filesystem
perl-xml-parser: /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/XML/Parser/Expat/Expat.so exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

2. Notice on each operation:

pacman: /usr/local/lib/libcurl.so.4: no version information available (required by /usr/local/lib/libalpm.so.7)

3. With FORCE: sudo pacman -S pidgin-otr --force

...
( 3/194) installing glibc [#################################################] 100%
warning: /etc/locale.gen saved as /etc/locale.gen.pacorig
error: extract: not overwriting dir with file lib
error: problem occurred while installing glibc
error: could not commit transaction
error: failed to commit transaction (transaction aborted)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

How can i fix it?

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Last edited by deex (2012-08-26 16:44:29)

bgc1954

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From: Edmonton, AB, Canada

Registered: 2006-03-14

Posts: 1,160

Re: need help with pacman

Looks like you might still be having problems with this: http://www.archlinux.org/news/the-lib-d … a-symlink/

If you use the search function on the forums, you'll find tonnes of info on this sort of thing.

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zero_one

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Registered: 2010-07-07

Posts: 104

Re: need help with pacman

3. With FORCE: sudo pacman -S pidgin-otr --force

...
( 3/194) installing glibc [#################################################] 100%
warning: /etc/locale.gen saved as /etc/locale.gen.pacorig
error: extract: not overwriting dir with file lib
error: problem occurred while installing glibc
error: could not commit transaction
error: failed to commit transaction (transaction aborted)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

How can i fix it?

At this point one would have to say that your're on your own. Its not good practice to --force anything unless explicitly required. From your #3 it looks like you wanted to force a pidgin install and forced an upgrade you werent prepared for.

deex

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Registered: 2012-08-26

Posts: 2

Re: need help with pacman

so what can i do to fix that?

>>If you use the search function on the forums, you'll find tonnes of info on this sort of thing
what thing? what i need to search?

i can't understand what's wrong for pacman
i have /lib with libraries and /usr/lib with other libraries. Should i make new symlink lib->usr/lib and move all content from lib to usr/lib?

SanskritFritz

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From: Budapest, Hungary

Registered: 2009-01-08

Posts: 1,954

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Re: need help with pacman

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/De … iki:usrlib

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