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amatika

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Registered: 2016-03-17

Posts: 59

[SOLVED] Removing sip breaks dependency 'sip' required by python-pyqt4

Should I  remove python2-pyqt4 to be able to upgrade the system?

sudo pacman -Syu --noconfirm
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra                1646.0 KiB  3.42 MiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
 community               5.3 MiB  4.07 MiB/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
 multilib is up to date
 archlinuxfr is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
:: Replace python-sip with extra/python-sip4? [Y/n] 
:: Replace sip with extra/sip4? [Y/n] 
:: Replace xorg-server-xwayland with extra/xorg-xwayland? [Y/n] 
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing sip breaks dependency 'sip' required by python-pyqt4
:: removing sip breaks dependency 'sip' required by python2-pyqt4

Last edited by amatika (2021-01-10 13:20:00)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,352

Re: [SOLVED] Removing sip breaks dependency 'sip' required by python-pyqt4

Yes, and then change the relevant dependency on the python-pyqt4 PKGBUILD and rebuild them if you still need them.

arojas

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From: Spain

Registered: 2011-10-09

Posts: 2,303

Re: [SOLVED] Removing sip breaks dependency 'sip' required by python-pyqt4

And, while you're at it, remove the runtime dependency on sip/sip4. That's only needed at build time.

Last edited by arojas (2021-01-10 12:04:51)