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#1 2004-02-17 13:47:56

Kitgo
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From: Germany
Registered: 2004-02-17
Posts: 18

What is fontconfig?

i have installed almost everything from the CD (including KDE, GNOME, XFREE, the daemons etc)

now i wanted a system update and pacman asked for some replacements but the it came a line:

fontconfig conflics with xfree86. remove xfree86 (y/n)?

and now? when i have no xfree then i have no wm and so on. what can i do?

can it be that pacman first removes xfree86, upgrades fontconfig and then reinstalls xfree86?

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#2 2004-02-17 15:44:57

robot5x
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Registered: 2004-01-26
Posts: 266

Re: What is fontconfig?

Did you do
pacman -Sy pacman, before
pacman -Syu?

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#3 2004-02-17 15:52:54

Xentac
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From: Victoria, BC
Registered: 2003-01-17
Posts: 1,797
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Re: What is fontconfig?

http://archlinux.org/news.php?skip=10#33

Also, check the announcements section of the forum.  Or just do a search on the forum.

Next time, installing the packages off the internet is an easier method than installing off the cd, because of the ugly upgrades.


I have discovered that all of mans unhappiness derives from only one source, not being able to sit quietly in a room
- Blaise Pascal

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#4 2004-02-17 18:32:04

Kitgo
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From: Germany
Registered: 2004-02-17
Posts: 18

Re: What is fontconfig?

yes i did upgrade pacman before the whole installation process...

and well it took me about 3-4 hours of downloading all the new packages. (but after doing the sortmirror script)

the command "pacman -Syu" didn't finish because it removed xfree and some packages need that. i'll give it a try with the posting above.


Thanks

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#5 2004-02-17 19:52:19

Kitgo
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From: Germany
Registered: 2004-02-17
Posts: 18

Re: What is fontconfig?

i did remove xfree and added it again...

and then i did a "pacman -Syu" for a systemupgrade. now no conflicts occured but while/after checking file dependencies or so it suddenly aborted with a lot of error messages. the problem is that there is no log of the error messages (this is very bad) . even in pacman.log. and now of course the system does not start.
i have to get it running again by renaming the start scripts. no problem. but i wonder what happened.

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