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#1 2025-04-02 09:45:50
- wannagore
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[SOLVED]pacman says: failed to prepare transaction
pacman says: failed to prepare transaction(could not satisfy dependencies)
:: installing expat (2.7.1-1) breaks dependency 'expat=2.7.0' required by lib32-expat
im noob at arch
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#2 2025-04-02 09:47:48
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Re: [SOLVED]pacman says: failed to prepare transaction
When you do a "pacman -Sy" does the multilib repo show?
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#3 2025-04-02 09:55:12
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Re: [SOLVED]pacman says: failed to prepare transaction
no
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#4 2025-04-02 10:03:59
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Re: [SOLVED]pacman says: failed to prepare transaction
You need to edit /etc/makepkg.conf and uncomment the multilib repo section.
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#5 2025-04-02 10:11:28
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Re: [SOLVED]pacman says: failed to prepare transaction
I can't find this section, I tried to find it through a slash, writing multilib, but I still couldn't find this/these lines
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#6 2025-04-02 10:16:31
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Re: [SOLVED]pacman says: failed to prepare transaction
Oops! /etc/pacman.conf. Lack of sleep...
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#7 2025-04-02 10:27:40
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Re: [SOLVED]pacman says: failed to prepare transaction
its worked, thanks!
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