[SOLVED] pacman upgrade requires tesseract? and cycle dependency

Archer_archibald · 2023-11-02 14:30:30

Hello,

After issuing "pacman -Syu" one of the repos requires to install tesseract, which is a hand-writing recognition software (?). I have been using arch for a little while but i cant figure out more about this. If i ignore new packages and just update the currently installed i.e. "pacman -Sua" then the tesseract requirement goes away. So its a new package that requires tesseract which is odd. It also warns about a cyclic dependency

How do i learn more about this?

pacman -Syu output:

[user@machine ~]$ sudo pacman -Syu
[sudo] password for user: 
:: Synchronising package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra                                       8.2 MiB  2.05 MiB/s 00:04 [#######################################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
:: There are 128 providers available for tessdata:
:: Repository extra
   1) tesseract-data-afr  2) tesseract-data-amh  3) tesseract-data-ara  4) tesseract-data-asm  5) tesseract-data-aze
   6) tesseract-data-aze_cyrl  7) tesseract-data-bel  8) tesseract-data-ben  9) tesseract-data-bod
   10) tesseract-data-bos  11) tesseract-data-bre  12) tesseract-data-bul  13) tesseract-data-cat
   14) tesseract-data-ceb  15) tesseract-data-ces  16) tesseract-data-chi_sim  17) tesseract-data-chi_sim_vert
   18) tesseract-data-chi_tra  19) tesseract-data-chi_tra_vert  20) tesseract-data-chr  21) tesseract-data-cos
   22) tesseract-data-cym  23) tesseract-data-dan  24) tesseract-data-dan_frak  25) tesseract-data-deu
   26) tesseract-data-deu_frak  27) tesseract-data-div  28) tesseract-data-dzo  29) tesseract-data-ell
   30) tesseract-data-eng  31) tesseract-data-enm  32) tesseract-data-epo  33) tesseract-data-equ
   34) tesseract-data-est  35) tesseract-data-eus  36) tesseract-data-fao  37) tesseract-data-fas
   38) tesseract-data-fil  39) tesseract-data-fin  40) tesseract-data-fra  41) tesseract-data-frk
   42) tesseract-data-frm  43) tesseract-data-fry  44) tesseract-data-gla  45) tesseract-data-gle
   46) tesseract-data-glg  47) tesseract-data-grc  48) tesseract-data-guj  49) tesseract-data-hat
   50) tesseract-data-heb  51) tesseract-data-hin  52) tesseract-data-hrv  53) tesseract-data-hun
   54) tesseract-data-hye  55) tesseract-data-iku  56) tesseract-data-ind  57) tesseract-data-isl
   58) tesseract-data-ita  59) tesseract-data-ita_old  60) tesseract-data-jav  61) tesseract-data-jpn
   62) tesseract-data-jpn_vert  63) tesseract-data-kan  64) tesseract-data-kat  65) tesseract-data-kat_old
   66) tesseract-data-kaz  67) tesseract-data-khm  68) tesseract-data-kir  69) tesseract-data-kmr
   70) tesseract-data-kor  71) tesseract-data-kor_vert  72) tesseract-data-lao  73) tesseract-data-lat
   74) tesseract-data-lav  75) tesseract-data-lit  76) tesseract-data-ltz  77) tesseract-data-mal
   78) tesseract-data-mar  79) tesseract-data-mkd  80) tesseract-data-mlt  81) tesseract-data-mon
   82) tesseract-data-mri  83) tesseract-data-msa  84) tesseract-data-mya  85) tesseract-data-nep
   86) tesseract-data-nld  87) tesseract-data-nor  88) tesseract-data-oci  89) tesseract-data-ori
   90) tesseract-data-pan  91) tesseract-data-pol  92) tesseract-data-por  93) tesseract-data-pus
   94) tesseract-data-que  95) tesseract-data-ron  96) tesseract-data-rus  97) tesseract-data-san
   98) tesseract-data-sin  99) tesseract-data-slk  100) tesseract-data-slk_frak  101) tesseract-data-slv
   102) tesseract-data-snd  103) tesseract-data-spa  104) tesseract-data-spa_old  105) tesseract-data-sqi
   106) tesseract-data-srp  107) tesseract-data-srp_latn  108) tesseract-data-sun  109) tesseract-data-swa
   110) tesseract-data-swe  111) tesseract-data-syr  112) tesseract-data-tam  113) tesseract-data-tat
   114) tesseract-data-tel  115) tesseract-data-tgk  116) tesseract-data-tgl  117) tesseract-data-tha
   118) tesseract-data-tir  119) tesseract-data-ton  120) tesseract-data-tur  121) tesseract-data-uig
   122) tesseract-data-ukr  123) tesseract-data-urd  124) tesseract-data-uzb  125) tesseract-data-uzb_cyrl
   126) tesseract-data-vie  127) tesseract-data-yid  128) tesseract-data-yor

Enter a number (default=1): 
looking for conflicting packages...
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: tesseract-data-afr will be installed before its tesseract dependency

Packages (12) enchant-2.6.2-1  ghostscript-10.02.1-1  leptonica-1.83.1-1  libmupdf-1.23.4-4  libp11-kit-0.25.2-1
              p11-kit-0.25.2-1  python-charset-normalizer-3.3.2-1  python-pydantic-2.4.2-1
              python-pydantic-core-1:2.10.1-1  tesseract-5.3.3-1  tesseract-data-afr-2:4.1.0-4
              tesseract-data-osd-2:4.1.0-4

Total Download Size:    58.96 MiB
Total Installed Size:  132.03 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:       26.25 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]

Last edited by Archer_archibald (2023-11-02 15:52:00)

V1del · 2023-11-02 14:45:36

"pacman -Sua" is not a thing. If you're actually talking about "yay -Sua" that will simply ignore repo packages and update AUR instead.

Going through the list of updates, mupdf is a likely candidate and the "culprit": https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … 03f0e2fa98

If you don't want that you'll have to rebuild mupdf yourself, if you do want that then just proceed with the update and ignore the cycle dependency, those are normally harmless for you as an end user getting a relevant package combination.

Tesseract in general is an OCR tool and in this particular case will likely be used so that you can "transparently" copy text out of image PDFs after they've gotten analyzed by tesseract.

Archer_archibald · 2023-11-02 15:49:02

Thanks, right on both accounts. Solved.

too · 2023-11-04 08:00:50

I had similar issue just now and I was trying to find the culprit myself without luck. pacman -Qi or -Si on tessdata meta package did not bring anything, same as checking tesseract-data-afr.
How to check which package (indeed mupdf-gl in my case) depends on packages to be installed in -Syu? Teach a man to fish....

c00ter · 2023-11-04 10:38:11

Tesseract is a dependency of skanpage on my KDE install.

xerxes_ · 2023-11-05 13:10:33

@too: see in output of command 'pacman -Sii tesseract' "Required By" section; which package from this section do you have installed?

Stefan Husmann · 2023-11-14 16:34:44

Why to you furtherly search for a culprit while it was clearly named in #2?

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#1 2023-11-02 14:30:30

[SOLVED] pacman upgrade requires tesseract? and cycle dependency

#2 2023-11-02 14:45:36

Re: [SOLVED] pacman upgrade requires tesseract? and cycle dependency

#3 2023-11-02 15:49:02

Re: [SOLVED] pacman upgrade requires tesseract? and cycle dependency

#4 2023-11-04 08:00:50

Re: [SOLVED] pacman upgrade requires tesseract? and cycle dependency

#5 2023-11-04 10:38:11

Re: [SOLVED] pacman upgrade requires tesseract? and cycle dependency

#6 2023-11-05 13:10:33

Re: [SOLVED] pacman upgrade requires tesseract? and cycle dependency

#7 2023-11-14 16:34:44

Re: [SOLVED] pacman upgrade requires tesseract? and cycle dependency

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