i got sucked into dependency hell when trying to switch to KDE

Kxed · 2023-03-18 15:17:59

[kxeo@archlinx Downloads]$ sudo pacman -S plasma
:: There are 49 members in group plasma:
:: Repository extra
   1) bluedevil  2) breeze  3) breeze-gtk  4) discover  5) drkonqi
   6) flatpak-kcm  7) kactivitymanagerd  8) kde-cli-tools
   9) kde-gtk-config  10) kdecoration  11) kdeplasma-addons
   12) kgamma5  13) khotkeys  14) kinfocenter  15) kmenuedit
   16) kpipewire  17) kscreen  18) kscreenlocker  19) ksshaskpass
   20) ksystemstats  21) kwallet-pam  22) kwayland-integration
   23) kwin  24) kwrited  25) layer-shell-qt  26) libkscreen
   27) libksysguard  28) milou  29) oxygen  30) oxygen-sounds
   31) plasma-browser-integration  32) plasma-desktop
   33) plasma-disks  34) plasma-firewall  35) plasma-integration
   36) plasma-nm  37) plasma-pa  38) plasma-sdk
   39) plasma-systemmonitor  40) plasma-thunderbolt
   41) plasma-vault  42) plasma-welcome  43) plasma-workspace
   44) plasma-workspace-wallpapers  45) polkit-kde-agent
   46) powerdevil  47) sddm-kcm  48) systemsettings
   49) xdg-desktop-portal-kde

Enter a selection (default=all): all
error: invalid number: all

Enter a selection (default=all): 
resolving dependencies...
:: There are 2 providers available for phonon-qt5-backend:
:: Repository extra
   1) phonon-qt5-gstreamer  2) phonon-qt5-vlc

Enter a number (default=1): 
looking for conflicting packages...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: installing poppler (23.02.0-1) breaks dependency 'poppler=23.01.0' required by poppler-glib
[kxeo@archlinx Downloads]$ sudo pacman -R poppler-glib
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing poppler-glib breaks dependency 'poppler-glib' required by evince
:: removing poppler-glib breaks dependency 'poppler-glib' required by gegl
:: removing poppler-glib breaks dependency 'libpoppler-glib.so=8-64' required by sane
:: removing poppler-glib breaks dependency 'poppler-glib' required by tracker3-miners (what is tracker3-miners anyway?)

I just wanted to switch from GNOME to KDE...
(also, title seems to be a bit extreme, sorry)

Last edited by Kxed (2023-03-19 18:52:40)

Scimmia · 2023-03-18 15:48:43

Fully update your system first.

dakota · 2023-03-18 15:49:12

Please use code tags for code.

Kxed wrote:

$ sudo pacman -S plasma
...
:: installing poppler (23.02.0-1) breaks dependency 'poppler=23.01.0' required by poppler-glib

Perhaps updating your system first? Or using -Syu?

EDIT - ninja'd

Last edited by dakota (2023-03-18 15:50:36)

WorMzy · 2023-03-18 15:50:33

Please use code tags, and don't run partial upgrades (which is what caused the mismatch between poppler and poppler-glib).

pacman -Syu plasma

should work, but if not, post your /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist. In code tags.

Kxed · 2023-03-19 00:26:03

Not enough storage for that.

WorMzy · 2023-03-19 00:44:25

Then increase the size of the partition that has insufficient space, or clean up whatever is using up the storage. If you can't `-Syu` on a regular basis then you're using the wrong distro.

dakota · 2023-03-19 00:50:35

Kxed wrote:

Not enough storage for that.

Too bad. Nobody can help you with that...
... unless you post more information (like: what command you used, and what the output was).

A wild guess: maybe you could manage your storage? And you could also edit your first post to use code tags.

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Edit: however, judging from your post history, perhaps this distribution is too advanced for you?

Last edited by dakota (2023-03-19 01:04:24)

seth · 2023-03-19 07:08:34

Not enough storage for that.

I just wanted to switch from GNOME to KDE...

Remove gnome first?

Kxed · 2023-03-19 18:48:08

seth wrote:

Not enough storage for that.
I just wanted to switch from GNOME to KDE...
Remove gnome first?

sudo pacman -R gnome:
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing gnome-settings-daemon breaks dependency 'gnome-settings-daemon' required by gnome-tweaks
:: removing gnome-backgrounds breaks dependency 'gnome-backgrounds' required by lightdm-webkit2-greeter
:: removing gnome-keyring breaks dependency 'gnome-keyring' required by xdg-desktop-portal-gnome

Last edited by Kxed (2023-03-19 18:53:41)

seth · 2023-03-19 20:09:40

'Remove "the stuff you do't want to keep" first'

Arch Linux

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i got sucked into dependency hell when trying to switch to KDE

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