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archimist

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Registered: 2021-07-31

Posts: 9

Unable to update system (conflicts)

Hello all,

I've been having issues when trying to update my system.
After issuing pacman -Syu

I get the following errors but not sure what the issue is or how to fix it.

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
(186/186) checking keys in keyring                                                               [#########################################################] 100%
(186/186) checking package integrity                                                             [#########################################################] 100%
(186/186) loading package files                                                                  [#########################################################] 100%
(186/186) checking for file conflicts                                                            [#########################################################] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
python-importlib-metadata: /usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/importlib_metadata/__init__.py exists in filesystem
python-importlib-metadata: /usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/importlib_metadata/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.pyc exists in filesystem
python-importlib-metadata: /usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/importlib_metadata/__pycache__/_adapters.cpython-39.pyc exists in filesystem
python-importlib-metadata: /usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/importlib_metadata/__pycache__/_collections.cpython-39.pyc exists in filesystem
python-importlib-metadata: /usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/importlib_metadata/__pycache__/_compat.cpython-39.pyc exists in filesystem
python-importlib-metadata: /usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/importlib_metadata/__pycache__/_functools.cpython-39.pyc exists in filesystem
python-importlib-metadata: /usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/importlib_metadata/__pycache__/_itertools.cpython-39.pyc exists in filesystem
python-importlib-metadata: /usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/importlib_metadata/__pycache__/_meta.cpython-39.pyc exists in filesystem
python-importlib-metadata: /usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/importlib_metadata/__pycache__/_text.cpython-39.pyc exists in filesystem
python-importlib-metadata: /usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/importlib_metadata/_adapters.py exists in filesystem
python-importlib-metadata: /usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/importlib_metadata/_collections.py exists in filesystem
python-importlib-metadata: /usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/importlib_metadata/_compat.py exists in filesystem
python-importlib-metadata: /usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/importlib_metadata/_functools.py exists in filesystem
python-importlib-metadata: /usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/importlib_metadata/_itertools.py exists in filesystem
python-importlib-metadata: /usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/importlib_metadata/_meta.py exists in filesystem
python-importlib-metadata: /usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/importlib_metadata/_text.py exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,300

Re: Unable to update system (conflicts)

This happens if you mix package managers and installed python packages as root with pip which is something you mustn't do. Uninstall importlib_metadata with pip and update the system.