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kabads

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[Solved] Error on pacman update

[adam@hark lineage]$ sudo pacman -Syu
[sudo] password for adam: 
:: Synchronising package databases...
 core                           124.4 KiB  2.02M/s 00:00 [##############################] 100%
 extra                         1668.6 KiB  4.07M/s 00:00 [##############################] 100%
 community                        3.9 MiB  6.12M/s 00:01 [##############################] 100%
 multilib                       176.5 KiB  6.38M/s 00:00 [##############################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
:: Replace wxgtk with extra/wxgtk2? [Y/n] 
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: gconf-perl: installing perl (5.26.0-1) breaks dependency 'perl<5.25'
:: gnome-perl: installing perl (5.26.0-1) breaks dependency 'perl<5.25'
:: gnome-vfs-perl: installing perl (5.26.0-1) breaks dependency 'perl<5.25'
:: gnomecanvas-perl: installing perl (5.26.0-1) breaks dependency 'perl<5.25'
:: perl-gnome2-wnck: installing perl (5.26.0-1) breaks dependency 'perl<5.25'
:: perl-goo-canvas: installing perl (5.26.0-1) breaks dependency 'perl<5.25'
:: perl-gtk2-imageview: installing perl (5.26.0-1) breaks dependency 'perl<5.25'
:: perl-gtk2-unique: installing perl (5.26.0-1) breaks dependency 'perl<5.25'

How to get around this?

Last edited by kabads (2017-06-13 19:37:05)

Slithery

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Registered: 2013-12-01

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Re: [Solved] Error on pacman update

Uninstall the conflicting AUR packages and then rebuild/reinstall them after the upgrade.

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ayekat

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Registered: 2011-01-17

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Re: [Solved] Error on pacman update

:: gconf-perl: installing perl (5.26.0-1) breaks dependency 'perl<5.25'
:: gnome-perl: installing perl (5.26.0-1) breaks dependency 'perl<5.25'
:: gnome-vfs-perl: installing perl (5.26.0-1) breaks dependency 'perl<5.25'
:: gnomecanvas-perl: installing perl (5.26.0-1) breaks dependency 'perl<5.25'
:: perl-gnome2-wnck: installing perl (5.26.0-1) breaks dependency 'perl<5.25'
:: perl-goo-canvas: installing perl (5.26.0-1) breaks dependency 'perl<5.25'
:: perl-gtk2-imageview: installing perl (5.26.0-1) breaks dependency 'perl<5.25'
:: perl-gtk2-unique: installing perl (5.26.0-1) breaks dependency 'perl<5.25'

None of these packages are in the official repositories. If you built them yourself (e.g. from the AUR), you'll need to rebuild them against the new perl version.

I see that all of them removed the versioned dependency, so I guess simply updating them first (before -Syu) should work.

--edit: Actually, I can't find any recent change where the versioned dependency was removed (or ever existed)—I don't really know why it would complain here.

--edit2: No, actually I was right (it just happend half a year ago). Updating the packages in question first should fix the issues.

Last edited by ayekat (2017-06-13 19:31:06)

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Executor

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From: England

Registered: 2017-06-13

Posts: 20

Re: [Solved] Error on pacman update

If you have installed these packages from the User Repository you may need to reinstall them individually if that particular update still doesn't work then removing those packages might be the next option.

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Scorpick

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Registered: 2016-02-16

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Re: [Solved] Error on pacman update

They were previously in official repositories, but where dropped to AUR.
https://www.archlinux.org/todo/phasing- … libraries/

If you don't have packages from AUR requiring these, you can safely remove them.