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dauphin

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From: Scotland

Registered: 2003-07-09

Posts: 188

Multiple versions of ati-drivers

My system seems to have accumulated a large number of versions of the ati-drivers package (or, at least, pacman has become confused about this package).

pacman -Q shows:

.......
ati-drivers 8.19.10-1
ati-drivers 8.16.20-3
ati-drivers 8.16.20-2
ati-drivers 8.16.20-1
ati-drivers 8.10.19-1
ati-drivers 8.8.25-1
ati-drivers 8.22.5-3
.........

If I remove ati-drivers, only the current version disappears.

Sometimes I get an error message with pacman:

error: /var/lib/pacman/local/ati-drivers-8.8.25-1/desc: No such file or directory

Is there a way I can remedy these discrepancies in my pacman database?

Cerebral

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From: Waterloo, ON, CA

Registered: 2005-04-08

Posts: 3,108

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Re: Multiple versions of ati-drivers

You can do a quick

$ rm -r /var/lib/pacman/local/ati-drivers*
$ pacman -Sy ati-drivers-$kernel

where $kernel is one of arch or archck

That should fix you up

dauphin

Member

From: Scotland

Registered: 2003-07-09

Posts: 188

Re: Multiple versions of ati-drivers

Thanks a lot, that has solved the problem!