Arch Linux

0liver

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Registered: 2014-05-20

Posts: 63

upgrade arch linux installation, last used in 2015

due to some error in updating my arch linux, it now no longer boots.

i removed the internal hard disk and attached an external disk via USB which i last used in 2015.
It boots fine. but trying to upgrade to newest version I get the following:

:: Starting full system upgrade...
:: Replace at-spi2-atk with extra/at-spi2-core? [Y/n] 
:: Replace atk with extra/at-spi2-core? [Y/n] 
:: Replace bind-tools with extra/bind? [Y/n] 
:: Replace ca-certificates-cacert with core/ca-certificates? [Y/n] 
:: Replace cdrkit with extra/cdrtools? [Y/n] 
:: Replace fuse with extra/fuse2? [Y/n] 
:: Replace fuse-exfat with extra/exfat-utils? [Y/n] 
:: Replace geoclue2 with extra/geoclue? [Y/n] 
:: Replace gnome-themes-standard with extra/gnome-themes-extra? [Y/n] 
:: Replace hwids with core/hwdata? [Y/n] 
:: Replace isl with core/libisl? [Y/n] 
:: Replace lib32-atk with multilib/lib32-at-spi2-core? [Y/n] 
:: Replace lib32-libdbus with multilib/lib32-dbus? [Y/n] 
:: Replace lib32-mesa-libgl with multilib/lib32-mesa? [Y/n] 
:: Replace libcanberra-pulse with extra/libcanberra? [Y/n] 
:: Replace libdbus with core/dbus? [Y/n] 
:: Replace libmariadbclient with extra/mariadb-libs? [Y/n] 
:: Replace libsystemd with core/systemd-libs? [Y/n] 
:: Replace libutil-linux with core/util-linux-libs? [Y/n] 
:: Replace libx264 with extra/x264? [Y/n] 
:: Replace mate-netspeed with extra/mate-applets? [Y/n] 
:: Replace mesa-libgl with extra/mesa? [Y/n] 
:: Replace mime-types with extra/mailcap? [Y/n] 
warning: packer: local (20140817-1) is newer than extra (1.9.4-1)
:: Replace pkg-config with core/pkgconf? [Y/n] 
:: Replace pygobject-devel with extra/python-gobject? [Y/n] 
:: Replace python-dbus with extra/dbus-python? [Y/n] 
:: Replace python-dbus-common with extra/dbus-python? [Y/n] 
:: Replace python-xdg with extra/python-pyxdg? [Y/n] 
:: Replace qca with extra/qca-qt5? [Y/n] 
:: Replace sdl with extra/sdl12-compat? [Y/n] 
:: Replace spice-gtk3 with extra/spice-gtk? [Y/n] 
:: Replace totem-plparser with extra/totem-pl-parser? [Y/n] 
:: Replace ttf-freefont with extra/gnu-free-fonts? [Y/n] 
:: Replace virtualbox-host-modules with extra/virtualbox-host-modules-arch? [Y/n] 
:: Replace xorg-luit with extra/luit? [Y/n] 
:: Replace xorg-mkfontdir with extra/xorg-mkfontscale? [Y/n] 
:: Replace xorg-server-xwayland with extra/xorg-xwayland? [Y/n] 
resolving dependencies...
:: There are 2 providers available for libjack.so=0-64:
:: Repository extra
   1) jack2  2) pipewire-jack

Enter a number (default=1): 2
:: There are 2 providers available for pipewire-session-manager:
:: Repository extra
   1) pipewire-media-session  2) wireplumber

Enter a number (default=1): 2
looking for conflicting packages...
:: qt5-base and qtchooser are in conflict. Remove qtchooser? [y/N] y
:: pipewire-jack and jack are in conflict. Remove jack? [y/N] y
:: xorg-fonts-alias-misc and xorg-fonts-alias are in conflict. Remove xorg-fonts-alias? [y/N] y
:: dbus-python and python2-dbus are in conflict. Remove python2-dbus? [y/N] y
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: gstreamer0.10-good-plugins: requires libsoup-gnome
:: package-query: requires pacman<4.3
:: python2-gobject: requires pygobject-devel=3.16.2

is it worth to fix this? or better abandon and do a fresh install?

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,234

Re: upgrade arch linux installation, last used in 2015

It's going to be much, much easier to do a reinstall here. You'd have to follow all of the manual interventions between that timeframe https://archlinux.org/news/ where also the packaging format changed so you'd need to use a static build of pacman.

But maybe elaborate on the issues you had on the other disk, that might be more salvageable

Last edited by V1del (2023-11-23 19:30:45)