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MatiasR

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Registered: 2016-09-20

Posts: 5

Error updating LibreOffice [Solved]

Hello everyone!
Today I wanted to update my system and something weird happened. First I got this message:

[mati@TheTemple Labo]$ sudo pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
 multilib is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
:: Replace fuse with extra/fuse2? [Y/n] y
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/local/libreoffice-fresh-5.2.3-4/desc: No such file or directory
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
warning: could not fully load metadata for package libreoffice-fresh-5.2.3-4
error: failed to prepare transaction (invalid or corrupted package)

Packages were not up  to date, because I've not been on the computer for a while and I knew there were updates. After trying:

 sudo pacman -Syu --ignore libreoffice-fresh 

things improved a little bit, and I was able to update everything, but libreoffice. Then, I removed libreoffice and reinstalled it, but I got the following message:

error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
libreoffice-fresh: /usr/lib/libreoffice/CREDITS.fodt exists in filesystem
libreoffice-fresh: /usr/lib/libreoffice/LICENSE exists in filesystem

...

libreoffice-fresh: /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/uri-encode exists in filesystem
libreoffice-fresh: /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/xid-fullscreen-on-all-monitors exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

The error message was too long to paste it here, the complete error message can be read here: http://pastebin.com/7su6JMJS/ (but it's just more of the same I just copied).

I've also tried updating archlinux-keyring but the libreoffice problem kept appearing.
I use LibreOffice a lot for my university projects, so these are bad news.

Anyways, thank you for your time!

Last edited by MatiasR (2016-12-28 21:10:02)

MatiasR

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Registered: 2016-09-20

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Re: Error updating LibreOffice [Solved]

I wanted to ask here before trying:

pacman -S --force libreoffice

Docbroke

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Re: Error updating LibreOffice [Solved]

I guess the issue is similar to
this

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MatiasR

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Registered: 2016-09-20

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Re: Error updating LibreOffice [Solved]

I guess the issue is similar to
this

I couldn't find anything helpful there related to my problem. But thank you anyways!

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Re: Error updating LibreOffice [Solved]

I wanted to ask here before trying:

pacman -S --force libreoffice

This should be a last resort, so well done for asking before doing it.

The problem here is that your pacman database entry for libreoffice-fresh has gotten damaged somehow. What I would do is manually remove the /var/lib/pacman/local/libreoffice-fresh-5.2.3-4 directory, then recreate the database entry by reinstalling the same version of libreoffice-fresh (from pacman's cache or the ALA) using pacman's '--dbonly' flag. Then complete the update with 'pacman -Syu'.

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MatiasR

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Registered: 2016-09-20

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Re: Error updating LibreOffice [Solved]

I wanted to ask here before trying:

pacman -S --force libreoffice

This should be a last resort, so well done for asking before doing it.

The problem here is that your pacman database entry for libreoffice-fresh has gotten damaged somehow. What I would do is manually remove the /var/lib/pacman/local/libreoffice-fresh-5.2.3-4 directory, then recreate the database entry by reinstalling the same version of libreoffice-fresh (from pacman's cache or the ALA) using pacman's '--dbonly' flag. Then complete the update with 'pacman -Syu'.

It worked, thank you very much!
Marked as solved.