Failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)

FlatEarthGary · 2021-03-11 16:24:20

Hello there!

I've been away from my computer for some time and quite a few packages have gathered up to be updated. When I try to run:
sudo pacman -Syu
I runs fine until it says: checking for file conflicts, then it prints this: https://pastebin.com/atD6JTmZ (it's rather long but it basically says that a directory exists in both "pown" and "pwned").

I read on the wiki that you can fix this by checking who owns the directory through pacman -Qo directory and then delete it if it's not owned by another package. But when I search to see who owns the package pacman returns that no one owns it since it doesn't exists.

How do I fix this so that I can update my packages again?

Thank you have a great day!

Scimmia · 2021-03-11 16:26:59

What distro is this? Neither of those packages exist in the Arch repos.

FlatEarthGary · 2021-03-11 16:28:17

Scimmia wrote:

What distro is this? Neither of those packages exist in the Arch repos.

I am using Arch Linux and I have installed the Black Arch repo.

Thank you for your response!

Scimmia · 2021-03-11 16:29:03

So go complain to the BlackArch people.

FlatEarthGary · 2021-03-11 16:30:35

Scimmia wrote:

So go complain to the BlackArch people.

Ohh, okay I'll go ahead and do that. But do you know how I can get pass conflict? I think I necessarily need these packages that are conflicting. I'd much rather just remove them so that I can update other stuff.

seth · 2021-03-11 16:44:27

Remove two of the packagges.
They're obviously conflictiong and should be marked so, but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RyYrs5tu60

FlatEarthGary · 2021-03-11 16:47:09

seth wrote:

Remove two of the packagges.
They're obviously conflictiong and should be marked so, but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RyYrs5tu60

Okay, yeah that seems to be the best solution. Thank you so much for your help, and great meme by the way haha !

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Failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)

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