[Solved] "kwin and kdebase-workspace are in conflict"?

Soukyuu · 2014-10-14 16:52:08

So I was messing around with KDE5 back when it just came out and it installed alongside KDE4 just fine (from the AUR packages). Now when I try to do a pacman -Syu, I am getting the following:

resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
:: kwin and kdebase-workspace are in conflict. Remove kdebase-workspace? [y/N] n
error: unresolvable package conflicts detected

I tried removing kwin with

# pacman -Rdd kwin

and it does that. When I try to do a -Syu, however, it AGAIN says that kwin is in conflict, even though it's not installed anymore?

# pacman -Q kwin
error: package 'kwin' was not found
# pacman -Qs kwin
local/kwindowsystem 5.1.0-1 (kf5)
    KWindowSystem

From what I see, this is the result of this bug report. Any assistance on how to get out of this?

edit: this is for my VM running virtualbox, running a standard kernel unlike the machines in my signature.

Last edited by Soukyuu (2014-10-14 19:45:43)

arojas · 2014-10-14 17:07:23

You probably have some package that depends on kwin. When you update, pacman tries to update that package, which pulls kwin as dependency. Run pacman -Suy --debug to see which package is the culprit.

Soukyuu · 2014-10-14 19:45:20

Thanks for the pointer. I mistook plasma-workspace for the kde4 workspace, it seems. Once I removed that (as well as it's dependencies), I managed to remove oxygen, which then allowed me to perform an -Syu without issues.

Arch Linux

#1 2014-10-14 16:52:08

[Solved] "kwin and kdebase-workspace are in conflict"?

#2 2014-10-14 17:07:23

Re: [Solved] "kwin and kdebase-workspace are in conflict"?

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Re: [Solved] "kwin and kdebase-workspace are in conflict"?

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