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sshaikh

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Registered: 2019-07-03

Posts: 64

[Solved] Cannot remove telepathy-kde-meta

I have not updated an infrequently used install for a while (perhaps 10 months).

When trying to update with pacman -Syu, I get asked to replace a bunch of packages, ending with:

error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing kactivities breaks dependency 'kactivities' required by telepathy-kde-integration-module

According to https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=289694, I should be able to remove the offending package but:

❯ sudo pacman -Sy
:: Synchronising package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 aur is up to date
 aur-vcs is up to date

❯ sudo pacman -Rns telepathy-kde-meta
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing telepathy-kde-meta breaks dependency 'telepathy-kde-meta' required by kde-network-meta

How do I remove this package safely? How do I avoid this situation going forward (as mentioned this is a infrequently used machine)?

Last edited by sshaikh (2024-09-26 21:59:40)

sshaikh

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Registered: 2019-07-03

Posts: 64

Re: [Solved] Cannot remove telepathy-kde-meta

Solved. I had to update kde-network-meta first:

❯ sudo pacman -Sy kde-network-meta