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Gotit

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From: New England, USA

Registered: 2017-04-27

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[Solved] Cannot change to jdk due to jre dependency

Hi – have a bit of a problem installing jdk-openjdk22, as jre-openjdk22 has a dependency with Moneydance.

Failed to prepare transaction:
could not satisfy dependencies:
- removing jre-openjdk breaks dependency 'jre-openjdk' required by moneydance

I set java default to an older version of java thinking that would remove the dependency on jre-openjdk22, but no luck, still the same error.

$ archlinux-java status
Available Java environments:
  java-11-openjdk
  java-17-openjdk (default)
  java-22-openjdk

Is the only way I can install jdk-openjdk22 by removing Moneydance first, then re-installing after the installing jdk-openjdk22?

Last edited by Gotit (2024-08-04 20:09:04)

Trilby

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Re: [Solved] Cannot change to jdk due to jre dependency

Changing the system java interpreter is irrelevant - that has no effect on package dependencies.

But moneydance just depends on any java-runtime.  So you can install any package that provides that and you'll be fine.  If that package conflicts with another, then pacman will remove the other package in the same transaction (so dependency issues will not matter).

But you left out the actual command and other context of the error message so we can't say exactly why you got that error.

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Gotit

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From: New England, USA

Registered: 2017-04-27

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Re: [Solved] Cannot change to jdk due to jre dependency

Sorry for the delayed response.

Here's the full install attempt:

$ pacman -S jdk-openjdk
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
:: jdk-openjdk-22.0.1.u8-1 and jre-openjdk-22.0.1.u8-1 are in conflict. Remove jre-openjdk? [y/N] 
error: unresolvable package conflicts detected
error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
:: jdk-openjdk-22.0.1.u8-1 and jre-openjdk-22.0.1.u8-1 are in conflict

Does that help?

Scimmia

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Re: [Solved] Cannot change to jdk due to jre dependency

Update moneydance. You're 7+ months behind.

Trilby

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Re: [Solved] Cannot change to jdk due to jre dependency

Does that help?

Not really as there's nothing in that output about moneydance.  But I gather Scimmia is right - quite a while ago Moneydance depended directly on jre-openjdk which it should not have.

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Gotit

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From: New England, USA

Registered: 2017-04-27

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Re: [Solved] Cannot change to jdk due to jre dependency

@Scimmia - U nailed it.  After upgrading Moneydance to the current version (and incurring a license upgrade fee...) the dependency was gone, and I could switch to jdk.  Thanks!!!