[solved] nvidia update cannot resolve dependencies

dice · 2014-04-15 20:33:42

I just did my pacman -Syu and got this message:

 warning: cannot resolve "nvidia-utils=337.12", a dependency of "nvidia"
:: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies:
      nvidia

My current versions are

$ pacman -Q nvidia nvidia-utils
nvidia 334.21-4
nvidia-utils 334.21-7

Last edited by dice (2014-04-16 00:02:00)

saultdon · 2014-04-15 21:04:24

Some packages are still in testing and making their way to core/extra/community.

Then you have to wait for your mirrors to be sync'd unless you run something like reflector.

You can always check where they are at on the packages page too: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sor … =&flagged=

dactry · 2014-04-15 21:30:56

The latest nvidia package is dependent on nvidia-utils 337.12-1 which is only available in testing so Pacman cannot find it. I ran into the same problem and this is what I did to fix it.

****WARNING THIS MAY NOT BE SAFE. I TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY IF THIS BREAKS YOUR SYSTEM****

I added the testing repository to Pacman by editing /etc/pacman.conf and uncommenting the following lines:

[testing]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[community-testing]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

Then I ran following commands because I only wanted nvidia-utils 337.12-1 out of testing
#pacman -Sy
#pacman -Sdd nvidia-utils

I then removed the testing repositories from Pacman by commenting out those lines above in the /etc/pacman.conf file then ran #pacman -Syu

This worked fine for me.

Tom B · 2014-04-15 22:31:15

: Synchronising package databases...
 core                                                                         111.9 KiB   226K/s 00:00 [############################################################] 100%
 extra                                                                       1573.3 KiB   484K/s 00:03 [############################################################] 100%
 community is up to date
 multilib is up to date
 archlinuxfr is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
warning: cannot resolve "nvidia-utils=337.12", a dependency of "nvidia"
:: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies:
      nvidia

:: Do you want to skip the above package for this upgrade? [y/N] ^C
Interrupt signal received

I realise the driver has only been updated in the repository today but it looks like somewhere the packages nvidia and nvidia-utils are somehow out of sync?

Should I avoid upgrading this package or will upgrading it work and fix the warning?

graysky · 2014-04-15 22:37:52

Someone opened a flyspray on this so it should be known to people who can fix it.

blackout23 · 2014-04-15 22:44:31

nvidia-utils still is in [testing] together with all the other related packages that's why it complains. Someone probably forgot to push them to [extra] togehter with nvidia 337.12.

Don't freak out and play around with -Rdd and the [testing] repo just wait for them to be push. That's it.

Last edited by blackout23 (2014-04-15 22:47:31)

jasonwryan · 2014-04-15 22:45:46

Please search before posting. Merging...

dice · 2014-04-16 00:01:35

Oh I'm sorry I should have checked if the package is still in testing. I somehow thought "wtf did I do to break pacman" because I was fiddling with some reverting, reinstalling stuff.

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#1 2014-04-15 20:33:42

[solved] nvidia update cannot resolve dependencies

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