Missing dependency, although package is installed

chaosgeisterchen · 2007-05-31 12:00:25

Good afternoon,

just as I tried to update the whole system with pacman -Syu, but it did not work.

[root@celestary chaosgeisterchen]# pacman -Syu
:: Synchronisiere Paketdatenbanken...
 current ist aktuell
 extra ist aktuell
 unstable ist aktuell
 community ist aktuell
 kdemod ist aktuell
:: Starte komplette Systemaktualisierung...
Löse Abhängigkeiten auf... Fertig.
Fehler: Konnte Vorgang nicht vorbereiten (Kann Abhängigkeiten nicht erfüllen)
:: firefox-i18n Benötigt firefox=2.0.0.3

( by the way: HowTo let my pacman talk English again? I do not want the German version anymore. )

The needed package is installed anyway

[root@celestary chaosgeisterchen]# pacman -Qs firefox
local/firefox 2.0.0.3-3
    Standalone web browser from mozilla.org
local/firefox-i18n 2.0.0.3-1
    Language packs for Firefox
local/mozplugger 1.8.1-1
    A Mozilla & Firefox multimedia plugin.

Is there something wrong with the firefox-i18n-package?

regards,

cg

Last edited by chaosgeisterchen (2007-05-31 12:01:10)

Sigi · 2007-05-31 12:11:36

This happens because firefox-i18n needs version 2.0.0.3 of firefox and v 2.0.0.4 is in the repos.
IMO you'll have to
- wait until firefox-i18n 2.0.0.4 hits the repos
or
- remove firefox-i18n

chaosgeisterchen · 2007-05-31 12:51:39

Just saw that the package was updated, hence the problem is now clearly understandable. Thanks anyway, next time I'll know it.

gradgrind · 2007-05-31 16:16:26

If you want only pacman to speak English you could try, e.g.,

LANG=en_US.utf8 pacman -Syu

or similar (you have to have the desired locale installed).

chaosgeisterchen · 2007-05-31 17:54:59

It works, but how to use this without the prefix?

alias in ~/.bashrc?

shining · 2007-05-31 19:28:05

chaosgeisterchen wrote:

It works, but how to use this without the prefix?
alias in ~/.bashrc?

if you only want pacman in english and not the whole system, then I'm not sure there is another way.

chaosgeisterchen · 2007-06-01 13:43:02

shining wrote:

chaosgeisterchen wrote:
It works, but how to use this without the prefix?
alias in ~/.bashrc?
if you only want pacman in english and not the whole system, then I'm not sure there is another way.

Setting an alias in ~/.bashrc for root works perfect. It's therefore systemwide applied but I do not care - as I am the only person using this machine.

wolfi · 2007-07-19 14:34:12

same here now with the upgrade from 2.0.0.4 to 2.0.0.5

with a pacman -Syu i got an error, cause pacman wants to upgrade firefox, but the related -i18n package is not available. So i forced the upgrade, but having an english browser is annoying...

Strange is: On the front page the -18n 2.0.0.5 package is at recent updates and i am using ftp.archlinux.org

EDIT: downed it by hand from ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/extra/os/i686/f … pkg.tar.gz

but what the reason for this error ? is it a pacman issue, or an issue with the repo database ?

Last edited by wolfi (2007-07-19 14:36:44)

ise · 2007-07-19 14:39:14

Quote from the arch mailing-list:

On Wed 2007-07-18 22:59 , Attila wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this is only a question to understand why it is as it is.
>
> Now and the last time a pacman -Syu shows me that a newer firefox is there.
> But it can't be installed because i have firefox-i18n too and from this the
> new version is not on the mirrors. In this moment the difference is about 5
> hours between the newer firefox is there but not the newer firefox-i18n. This
> happens only with this package and so my question is: Why?
>
> I hope nobody see this as criticism because the only annoying thing is that i
> have to ignore firefox for upgrading other newer packages.
>
> See you, Attila
Firefox and firefox-i18n have different maintainers (they
are even in different repos!); Thomas and Alexander update the
packages when they can do that, and this doesn't happen necessarily at
the same hour (or day).
Cheers,
--
Alessio 'mOLOk' Bolognino
Arch Linux Trusted User

I think that will explain it....

wolfi · 2007-07-20 12:33:16

Thx for your reply, but the explanation dont explain why the updated firefox-i18n is in the repo, but was not showing up through pacman.

Last edited by wolfi (2007-07-20 12:33:31)

shining · 2007-07-20 12:45:10

Maybe the database hasn't been updated, this happened a while ago.

edit : http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 37#p267237

Last edited by shining (2007-07-20 12:48:23)

Cerebral · 2007-07-20 13:26:07

wolfi wrote:

Strange is: On the front page the -18n 2.0.0.5 package is at recent updates and i am using ftp.archlinux.org

Please don't use ftp.archlinux.org. You get no benefit from using it, since it syncs like any other mirror; there's no guarantee it's any more uptodate than anything else.

You can use the rankmirrors script included in pacman3 to help you find a better mirror.

shining · 2007-07-20 14:14:12

Cerebral wrote:

Please don't use ftp.archlinux.org. You get no benefit from using it, since it syncs like any other mirror; there's no guarantee it's any more uptodate than anything else.

ftp.archlinux.org has been throttled down, right ? So it doesn't really matter if some people keep using it, as long as they are happy with very slow download speeds.
Or am I missing something ? Like maybe many many people still use it, despite the slow speed, so it still generates a lot of traffics ?

Arch Linux

#1 2007-05-31 12:00:25

Missing dependency, although package is installed

#2 2007-05-31 12:11:36

Re: Missing dependency, although package is installed

#3 2007-05-31 12:51:39

Re: Missing dependency, although package is installed

#4 2007-05-31 16:16:26

Re: Missing dependency, although package is installed

#5 2007-05-31 17:54:59

Re: Missing dependency, although package is installed

#6 2007-05-31 19:28:05

Re: Missing dependency, although package is installed

#7 2007-06-01 13:43:02

Re: Missing dependency, although package is installed

#8 2007-07-19 14:34:12

Re: Missing dependency, although package is installed

#9 2007-07-19 14:39:14

Re: Missing dependency, although package is installed

#10 2007-07-20 12:33:16

Re: Missing dependency, although package is installed

#11 2007-07-20 12:45:10

Re: Missing dependency, although package is installed

#12 2007-07-20 13:26:07

Re: Missing dependency, although package is installed

#13 2007-07-20 14:14:12

Re: Missing dependency, although package is installed

Board footer