[SOLVED- CORROUPT INSTALL MEDIA]Nvidia and mesa-libgl conflict issue

harshsahil48 · 2014-02-18 16:43:38

Hi I'm doing a clean install and I wanted to install nvidia proprietary drivers.

When I do

pacman -S nvidia

I get:

Unsolvable conflict detected
Nvidia and meas-libgl are in conflict

When I do

pacman -R mesa-libgl

I get:

Error: Target not found: mesa-libgl

I don't understand this as how can this happen?
Also, I'm installing a 64 but system and I've only installed the base system and base-devel. I have not installed any other package.

Thanks in advance

Last edited by harshsahil48 (2014-02-21 18:04:12)

clfarron4 · 2014-02-18 19:02:22

There are plenty of threads on this... This one looks relevant: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=159736

harshsahil48 · 2014-02-18 19:07:28

clfarron4 wrote:

There are plenty of threads on this... This one looks relevant: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=159736

I have referred to tens of other threads and none of them have helped. Moreover the thread you pointed out is an update conflict and what I have here is an installation conflict. Moreover, his machine is able to locate mesa at the time of removal, while mine is not.
Also, I have to even installed mesa yet. Mesa-libgl somehow came with base or base-devel.
Funny thing is that mesa-libgl cannoct be located and yet there is an existence of a conflict.

karol · 2014-02-18 21:39:42

harshsahil48 wrote:

Funny thing is that mesa-libgl cannoct be located and yet there is an existence of a conflict.

What's the output of

pacman -Q mesa-libgl nvidia

Scimmia · 2014-02-18 21:45:52

What is the output of

pacman -Qs -- -dri

You should not any any of the *-dri package installed.

harshsahil48 · 2014-02-19 04:43:17

karol wrote:

harshsahil48 wrote:
Funny thing is that mesa-libgl cannoct be located and yet there is an existence of a conflict.
What's the output of
pacman -Q mesa-libgl nvidia

target not found: mesa-libgl
target not found: nvidia

harshsahil48 · 2014-02-19 04:45:38

Scimmia wrote:

What is the output of
pacman -Qs -- -dri
You should not any any of the *-dri package installed.

No output

Scimmia · 2014-02-19 05:01:14

How about bumblebee or glamor-egl? Those are the only other things that could be pulling mesa-libgl in.

harshsahil48 · 2014-02-19 05:02:47

Scimmia wrote:

How about bumblebee or glamor-egl? Those are the only other things that could be pulling mesa-libgl in.

I have not installed any package yet.
As I'm saying, mesa-libgl must have snuck up somewhwer with base or base-devel

Scimmia · 2014-02-19 05:05:08

And I'm saying that's not possible. Did you check for those two? What is the exact output of pacman when you try to install nvidia, the whole thing, not just pieces.

harshsahil48 · 2014-02-19 05:09:19

resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-related conflicts...
error: unsolvable conflict of packets packages detected
error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
:: nvidia and mesa-libgl are in conflict

Scimmia wrote:

And I'm saying that's not possible. Did you check for those two? What is the exact output of pacman when you try to install nvidia, the whole thing, not just pieces.

Last edited by harshsahil48 (2014-02-19 05:20:34)

Scimmia · 2014-02-19 05:17:47

"error: unsolvable conflict of packets detected" makes no sense. I just grepped through the pacman source and that string does not exist.

harshsahil48 · 2014-02-19 05:18:44

Scimmia wrote:

"error: unsolvable conflict of packets detected" makes no sense. I just grepped through the pacman source and that string does not exist.

Sorry I meant packages. Damn autocorrect.

Scimmia · 2014-02-19 05:20:28

more than just that one word is wrong.

Anyway, try pacman -S nvidia --debug and paste the output here.

Edit, if you can't C&P, try sprunge: http://sprunge.us/

Last edited by Scimmia (2014-02-19 05:36:30)

harshsahil48 · 2014-02-21 17:02:31

I have solved the issue.
Turns out that my university was routing traffic from their servers and the network was not well architectured, causing a mixing of packets.
I got another .iso image from a private encrypted bittorrent connection and reinstalled.

karol · 2014-02-21 17:52:49

Please remember to mark the thread as solved https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130309

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[SOLVED- CORROUPT INSTALL MEDIA]Nvidia and mesa-libgl conflict issue

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