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starfry

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From: Surrey, UK

Registered: 2010-08-18

Posts: 230

[SOLVED] Pacman update failed: jade and opensp are in conflict

I just tried to do an update and got a failure                                               

:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
error: unresolvable package conflicts detected
error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
:: jade and opensp are in conflict

Now I don't know what either jade or opensp are, but they are there because docboox2x needs jade and gnucash needs libofx which needs opensp (I used "pacman -r" to check this).

I presume this conflict is new because things were fine through prior updates, although I confess that the last was done a while back (May 20th).

I can see that jade was added as a conflict in the opensp PKGBUILD on 6/20 and that it was removed on 6/21. Also, opensp was added as a conflict in the jade PKGBUILD on 6/21.
I believe the change is due to this ticket FS#49775.

I removed docbook2x and jade so that I could upgrade.

After upgrading I am unable to reinstall docbook2x due to the conflict between jade and opensp.

Any advice appreciated. Should I raise a comment on FS#49775 ?

Last edited by starfry (2016-07-13 09:03:59)

skunktrader

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2010-02-14

Posts: 1,543

Re: [SOLVED] Pacman update failed: jade and opensp are in conflict

I ended up replacing jade with openjade to get around the conflict

starfry

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From: Surrey, UK

Registered: 2010-08-18

Posts: 230

Re: [SOLVED] Pacman update failed: jade and opensp are in conflict

Yes, I did the same thing

$ pacman -S docbook2x openjade

Very obscure, and I'm not sure I would have found that without asking. So thanks for the suggestion to use openjade.