[solved] emacs install depends on older version of libmagick

sabinscabin · 2018-03-29 14:14:48

I'm trying to install emacs using

sudo pacman -S emacs

. Most of the dependencies are downloaded fine, except for a single one, which I'm getting the following error message:

error: failed retrieving file 'libmagick6-6.9.9.39-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from ...

which is repeated for every server in my list.

This is *not* a network issue, as I can ping www.google.com fine and also download and install other packages. Doing a

pacman -Qs libmagick

shows that the current version of libmagick is 7.0.7.27-2, and I can download and install that one fine. It seems the issue is that the current emacs package depends on an older version of libmagick, and that older version cannot be automatically downloaded during the pacman prerequisite resolution process for emacs, at least without any further steps which I am not aware of.

Is this a normal occurrence? How can I fix it so that I can download and install emacs?

Last edited by sabinscabin (2018-04-07 14:08:40)

Slithery · 2018-03-29 14:17:31

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130309

Read line 5.

sabinscabin · 2018-03-29 14:24:07

I see; doing

pacman -Syu

then trying to install emacs worked. I should have read the FAQ before posting; duly noted.

Trilby · 2018-03-29 14:24:07

While the above is certainly the cause (and solution) there is an added confusion here: libmagick is not the same package as libmagick6.

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[solved] emacs install depends on older version of libmagick

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