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shmoogin

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Registered: 2014-01-20

Posts: 3

apache-ant file conflict not letting me upgrade

As of yesterday, whenever I run a pacman -Su, pacman -Syu, or pacman -Syyu I get the same darn error:

error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
apache-ant: /usr/share/apache-ant/etc exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

Kalu is also telling me the same thing,

Error: System update failed: Failed to commit transaction: conflicting files :
- /usr/share/apache-ant/etc exists in both apache-ant and current filesystem

I'm not sure what to do. Is there any way I can upgrade apache-ant? I have other packages that need to be upgraded too that can't upgrade since apache-ant keeps getting this error. Any advice?

Last edited by shmoogin (2014-01-20 17:13:13)

karol

Archivist

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: apache-ant file conflict not letting me upgrade

Read https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130138

Edit: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/38580

Last edited by karol (2014-01-20 17:29:07)

papa6

Member

Registered: 2013-02-26

Posts: 26

Re: apache-ant file conflict not letting me upgrade

Hi,
as mentioned in the bug report comment, remove manualy the apache-ant file, then update your system.
It works (problem solved ?).

waroi

Member

Registered: 2014-01-23

Posts: 1

Re: apache-ant file conflict not letting me upgrade

Try:

sudo pacman -S --force apache-ant

and

sudo pacman -Syyu

dernik

Member

Registered: 2009-11-23

Posts: 13

Re: apache-ant file conflict not letting me upgrade

tnx waroi solved for me

loafer

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From: the pub

Registered: 2009-04-14

Posts: 1,772

Re: apache-ant file conflict not letting me upgrade

Using "--force" is not the correct solution.  Assuming the file is not owned by any package the solution is to remove it.

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szebenyib

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From: LHBP

Registered: 2011-10-18

Posts: 68

Re: apache-ant file conflict not letting me upgrade

Be careful with that shit. I just nuked my /etc folder with that and pretty angry about it. Yes, force is not a good solution, but I was stupid too. I did not know that rm would follow a link to /etc, because this is a link!! Remove the link simply don't you dare to rm -r, this thing will take my day