Installing Calibre

everydaydiesel · 2015-11-11 15:10:38

Can someone please tell me why calibre will not install.

Here is the error

System is up to date....

# pacman -Syu
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:: Starting full system upgrade...                                                                                                               
 there is nothing to do

Installation of calibre

# pacman -S calibre
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (28) chmlib-0.40-4  imagemagick-6.9.2.4-1  liblqr-0.4.2-1  lua51-5.1.5-4  ocl-icd-2.2.7-1  podofo-0.9.3-1  pyqt5-common-5.5.1-1
              python2-apsw-3.8.11.1-2  python2-chardet-2.3.0-2  python2-cherrypy-3.8.0-1  python2-cssselect-0.9.1-3  python2-cssutils-1.0.1-1
              python2-dateutil-2.4.2-2  python2-dbus-1.2.0-5  python2-dnspython-1.12.0-1  python2-html5lib-0.9999999-2  python2-lxml-3.4.4-2
              python2-mechanize-0.2.5-4  python2-netifaces-0.10.4-1  python2-packaging-15.3-2  python2-pillow-3.0.0-1  python2-psutil-3.2.2-1
              python2-pygments-2.0.2-3  python2-pyqt5-5.5.1-1  python2-setuptools-1:18.5-1  python2-sip-4.16.9-2  python2-six-1.10.0-1
              calibre-2.43.0-1

Total Installed Size:  156.41 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
(28/28) checking keys in keyring                                                        [##################################################] 100%
(28/28) checking package integrity                                                      [##################################################] 100%
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error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)                                                                                          
ocl-icd: /usr/lib/libOpenCL.so exists in filesystem                                                                                              
ocl-icd: /usr/lib/libOpenCL.so.1 exists in filesystem                                                                                            
ocl-icd: /usr/lib/libOpenCL.so.1.0.0 exists in filesystem                                                                                        
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

mareex · 2015-11-11 15:23:53

calibre wants to install ocl-icd as a dependency. But those three files already exist.
Look what packages own the files with

pacman -Qo /usr/lib/libOpenCL.so*

everydaydiesel · 2015-11-11 15:29:20

can i just rm these files?

# pacman -Qo /usr/lib/libOpenCL.so*
error: No package owns /usr/lib/libOpenCL.so
error: No package owns /usr/lib/libOpenCL.so.1
error: No package owns /usr/lib/libOpenCL.so.1.0
error: No package owns /usr/lib/libOpenCL.so.1.0.0

ewaller · 2015-11-11 15:30:47

Because there are three files in your file system that would be overwritten by the calibre package

You need to determine why they are there. On my system, those files are owned by the ocl-icd package. That package is a dependency of imagemagik which in turn is a dependency of both emacs and inkscape.
So, you are in a pickle. On your system, use pacman -Qo to find out what owns those files. I say that because it is the ocl-icd package that is failing. If no package owns those files, I suggest you move them someplace safe and then do your install.

Have you installed anything on your system using a tool besides pacman? like make install ? I also note you struggled installing an HP printer, perhaps those files materialized during that effort.

Now, I must ask, is this a true Arch system, or was there a magic installer involved?
Finally, if this were my system, I would use the --force switch. YMMV. I am not the maintainer for these packages and am not the expert -- so I could be wrong and things could go badly were you to try that.

mareex · 2015-11-11 15:35:31

I think this should be safe because no package owns these files and they are going to be installed anyway.
You can also force pacman to install calibre with

pacman -S calibre --force

But that would still leave /usr/lib/libOpenCL.so.1.0 orphaned on your system.

ewaller · 2015-11-11 15:38:01

mareex wrote:

I think this should be safe because no package owns these files and they are going to be installed anyway.

I tend to agree, therefore (I think) --force is appropriate here.
But, the OP really should determine why those files are there and whence they came.

everydaydiesel · 2015-11-12 00:06:09

Thanks for everyone that responded. I am not sure what it means by a "magic" installer but I booted arch iso from the arch website to get me to a command prompt. Then it was as easy as following the guide on the wiki. Create the partitions, format the drives, copy the base files, setup network connection etc....

Thanks again for the help!

Last edited by everydaydiesel (2015-11-12 00:06:25)

ewaller · 2015-11-12 00:55:47

everydaydiesel wrote:

Thanks for everyone that responded. I am not sure what it means by a "magic" installer but I booted arch iso from the arch website to get me to a command prompt.

Perfect.

What I was probing for was that this is a real Arch installation, not a different distribution that pretends to be arch, such as Manjaro, Evo/lution, Parabola, etc....
You're good

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#1 2015-11-11 15:10:38

Installing Calibre

#2 2015-11-11 15:23:53

Re: Installing Calibre

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#4 2015-11-11 15:30:47

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