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shoelesshunter

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Registered: 2014-05-18

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[solved] pacman: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)

while attempting a daily routine update, this occurred

sudo pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
 multilib is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
warning: linux-lts: ignoring package upgrade (5.15.59-2 => 5.15.60-1)
warning: linux-lts-headers: ignoring package upgrade (5.15.59-2 => 5.15.60-1)
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Package (4)                Old Version  New Version  Net Change

community/gamescope        3.11.32-1    3.11.36-1      0.04 MiB
extra/glew                 2.2.0-3      2.2.0-4        0.76 MiB
multilib/lib32-libtirpc    1.3.2-2      1.3.3-1        0.01 MiB
community/python-pygments  2.12.0-1     2.13.0-1       0.15 MiB

Total Installed Size:  16.12 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:       0.95 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
(4/4) checking keys in keyring                                                                         [############################################################] 100%
(4/4) checking package integrity                                                                       [############################################################] 100%
(4/4) loading package files                                                                            [############################################################] 100%
(4/4) checking for file conflicts                                                                      [############################################################] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
gamescope: /usr/include/libliftoff.h exists in filesystem (owned by libliftoff)
gamescope: /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libliftoff.pc exists in filesystem (owned by libliftoff)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

The error with with gamescope. Shall I uninstall it and try again?

Thanks!

Last edited by shoelesshunter (2022-08-17 23:32:07)

jasonwryan

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Re: [solved] pacman: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman … )%22_error

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Lone_Wolf

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Re: [solved] pacman: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)

The wiki link is likely not applicable in this case.

See https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/75631

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shoelesshunter

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From: USA

Registered: 2014-05-18

Posts: 289

Re: [solved] pacman: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)

I safely uninstalled the package causing the issue and uninstalled the application that owned the conflicting files. I updated the system, then reinstalled the previously removed packages. all is good now. thanks.