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mnx_kr

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Registered: 2023-12-07

Posts: 3

error update (pacman -S xorg-xwayland)

Hello! When i try update my xorg-wayland package, a saw this error:

error: could't end tracsaction, conflicting files
xorg-xwayland: '/usr/bin/Xwayland' exist in file system
xorg-xwayland: '/usr/lib/pkgconfig/xwayland.pc' exist in file system
xorg-xwayland: '/usr/share/applications/org.freedesktop.Xwayland.desktop' exist in file system
xorg-xwayland: '/usr/share/licenses/xorg-xwayland/COPYING' exist in file system
xorg-xwayland: '/usr/share/man/man1/Xwayland.1.gz' exist in file system

Last edited by mnx_kr (2023-12-07 18:49:12)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 51,498

Re: error update (pacman -S xorg-xwayland)

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

However, those files should obviously not be there.
Unless you installed them bypassing the package management, test

sudo LC_ALL=C pacman -Qkk | grep -v ', 0 altered files'

to see whether there're corrupted packages.

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