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stonecrest

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From: Boulder

Registered: 2005-01-22

Posts: 1,190

Unexpected pacman result/error

I have no xfce related files on my computer. I added shadowhand's repo and tried to install thunar-svn (an under-development xfce file manager):

$ sudo pacman -S thunar-svn
error: libxfce4util-svn conflicts with libxfce4util

I have neither libxfce4util-svn or libxfce4util installed. Shouldn't pacman grab one of them for me? Or, if the user needs to manually choose one, the error msg should be much clearer. One file conflicting with another seems to insinuate that have you have the conflicting file installed, which I didn't..

Edit: It just occured to me that this might just be a problem with how the thunar-svn PKGBUILD was made, I'm not familiar enough with it.

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Cerebral

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From: Waterloo, ON, CA

Registered: 2005-04-08

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Re: Unexpected pacman result/error

I think that means that thunar-svn requires libxfce4util(-svn) and can't decide which of the two to install. You'll need to pick one specifically

ie.

pacman -S thunar-svn libxfce4util-svn