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hsz

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Registered: 2009-09-25

Posts: 30

[SOLVED] Replace xorg-server1.12 with xorg-server dependencies problem

Currently I have installed city/xorg-server1.12 - I do not know why. I have to replace it with extra/xorg-server however there are obvious dependeny problems.

How can I force pacman/yaourt to skip dependencies and force install extra/xorg-server package ?

I have tried with

sudo pacman --force -Sd xorg-server

but without any luck.

Last edited by hsz (2013-05-07 07:42:05)

hsz

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Registered: 2009-09-25

Posts: 30

Re: [SOLVED] Replace xorg-server1.12 with xorg-server dependencies problem

Solved with

pacman -S xorg-server xf86-input-evdev

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,727

Re: [SOLVED] Replace xorg-server1.12 with xorg-server dependencies problem

Completely wrong application of --force. PLEASE don't use this option unless you know exactly what it is and what it's going to do.

There shouldn't be dependency problems, what exactly are you running into?

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [SOLVED] Replace xorg-server1.12 with xorg-server dependencies problem

How can I force pacman/yaourt to skip dependencies

Please read the man page.