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#1 2020-01-14 09:42:11

Zibi1981
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[SOLVED] Problem with installing/updating expressvpn from AUR

When I'm trying to install expressvpn from AUR I get this error

(1/1) checking for file conflicts                                                                                 [####################################################################] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
expressvpn: /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/expressvpn exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
==> WARNING: Failed to install built package(s).
==> Cleaning up...

At first I just wanted to update my package, but ended up with the same error, so tried a fresh install.

Any clues?

P.S. More info

ls -al /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/
(...)
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    35 11-23 17:00 expressvpn -> /usr/lib/expressvpn/bash-completion
(...)

Last edited by Zibi1981 (2020-01-16 12:26:10)


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#2 2020-01-14 11:30:47

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Re: [SOLVED] Problem with installing/updating expressvpn from AUR

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#3 2020-01-14 11:31:26

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Re: [SOLVED] Problem with installing/updating expressvpn from AUR

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … )%22_error

In this case, since that file is a symlink, I suspect you used the upstream package before trying to install the AUR package. Upstream's package creates untracked files, which is one of the reasons why I still maintain the AUR package as an alternative.
If you want to switch to the AUR package, I recommend that you manually remove the following files:

/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/expressvpn
/etc/systemd/system/expressvpn.service

Depending on which browsers you use, and how you installed the package (i.e. you used sudo) the upstream package will also have created files in your home directory for the browser addons. i.e.

"${HOME}/.mozilla/native-messaging-hosts"
"${HOME}/.mozilla/native-messaging-hosts/com.expressvpn.helper.json"
"${HOME}/.config/google-chrome/NativeMessagingHosts"
"${HOME}/.config/google-chrome/NativeMessagingHosts/com.expressvpn.helper.json"
"${HOME}/.config/chromium/NativeMessagingHosts"
"${HOME}/.config/chromium/NativeMessagingHosts/com.expressvpn.helper.json"
"${HOME}/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/NativeMessagingHosts"
"${HOME}/.config/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/NativeMessagingHosts/com.expressvpn.helper.json"

You may want to keep these.


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#4 2020-01-16 12:25:50

Zibi1981
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Re: [SOLVED] Problem with installing/updating expressvpn from AUR

Thanks for clearing that out.


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