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wmard15

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Registered: 2017-06-09

Posts: 8

[SOLVED] procps-ng and procps-ng-elogind are in conflict (procps) - ?

Good day! I am trying to install Arch Linux by directly following this user guide:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/installation_guide
However, I am stuck at "Install the base packages" step
( https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/in … e_packages )

When I write " pacstrap /mnt base " command - it is giving me the following error:

...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
:: procps-ng and procps-ng-elogind are in conflict (procps). Remove procps-ng-elogind? [y/N]
^^^ _Here it is not giving me a choice y/N, instead it instantly goes to_
error: unresolvable package conflicts detected
error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
:: procps-ng and procps-ng-elogind are in conflict
==> ERROR: Failed to install packages to new root
1 root@archiso ~ #

Maybe there is something that I am missing?
How to get a [y/N] choice opportunity at "Remove procps-ng-elogind? step, so that I could manually resolve this conflict?

Last edited by wmard15 (2017-06-12 14:05:42)

wmard15

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Registered: 2017-06-09

Posts: 8

Re: [SOLVED] procps-ng and procps-ng-elogind are in conflict (procps) - ?

pacstrap -i /mnt base gives me ability to select.
I was able to proceed by selecting all the packages EXCEPT " 5 6 26 32 34 35 36 43 47 " :
5) device-mapper 6) dhcpcd 26) lvm2 32) pacman 34) pcmciautils 35) perl 36) procps-ng 43) systemd-sysvcompat 47) util-linux
Now it asks me to download all the packages except the not-included. Hopefully it installs OK...
For the reference, my ISO is outdated - archlinux-2017.02.01-dual.iso
because it is the latest ISO which has i686 (32-bit) architecture

Ropid

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Registered: 2015-03-09

Posts: 1,069

Re: [SOLVED] procps-ng and procps-ng-elogind are in conflict (procps) - ?

There's no procps-ng-elogind package in Arch. Are you perhaps mounting a Manjaro installation in /mnt and trying to install with pacstrap over that existing Manjaro installation? Pacman will then see the already installed packages on that filesystem and that might be where this conflict comes from, from procps-ng-elogind being already installed and "pacstrap /mnt base" trying to install procps-ng.

wmard15

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Registered: 2017-06-09

Posts: 8

Re: [SOLVED] procps-ng and procps-ng-elogind are in conflict (procps) - ?

There's no procps-ng-elogind package in Arch. Are you perhaps mounting a Manjaro installation in /mnt and trying to install with pacstrap over that existing Manjaro installation? Pacman will then see the already installed packages on that filesystem and that might be where this conflict comes from, from procps-ng-elogind being already installed and "pacstrap /mnt base" trying to install procps-ng.

Ropid, thank you very very much for this message!
Indeed, my hard drive had the leftovers from failed Manjaro installation,
and although I deleted these partitions in cfdisk - I created new partitions with exactly the same sizes and forgot to format them,
so these old Manjaro files somehow got to these newly created partitions! O_o

Now it has been installed OK without a single conflict. Thank you again, and have a great day