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I was trying to install xchat with pacman --noconfirm -S xchat, and I got this error:
resolving dependencies... done.
looking for inter-conflicts... done.
Targets: gcc-libs-4.2.1-2 pcre-7.3-2 glib2-2.14.1-1 atk-1.18.0-2
cairo-1.4.10-1 libdatrie-0.1.2-1 libthai-0.1.9-1 pango-1.18.2-1
opencdk-0.6.4-1 libtasn1-1.1-1 gnutls-2.0.0-2 libcups-1.2.12-1
gtk2-2.10.14-3 dbus-1.0.2-4 dbus-glib-0.74-1 xchat-2.8.4-1
Total Package Size: 15.47 MB
Beginning upgrade process...
checking package integrity... done.
cleaning up... done.
checking for file conflicts...
error: could not prepare transactiongcc-libs: /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so exists in filesystem
gcc-libs: /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 exists in filesystem
gcc-libs: /usr/lib/libgomp.a exists in filesystem
gcc-libs: /usr/lib/libgomp.so exists in filesystem
gcc-libs: /usr/lib/libgomp.so.1 exists in filesystem
gcc-libs: /usr/lib/libgomp.so.1.0.0 exists in filesystem
gcc-libs: /usr/lib/libgomp.spec exists in filesystem
gcc-libs: /usr/lib/libmudflap.a exists in filesystem
gcc-libs: /usr/lib/libmudflap.so exists in filesystem
gcc-libs: /usr/lib/libmudflap.so.0 exists in filesystem
gcc-libs: /usr/lib/libmudflap.so.0.0.0 exists in filesystem
gcc-libs: /usr/lib/libmudflapth.a exists in filesystem
gcc-libs: /usr/lib/libmudflapth.so exists in filesystem
gcc-libs: /usr/lib/libmudflapth.so.0 exists in filesystem
gcc-libs: /usr/lib/libmudflapth.so.0.0.0 exists in filesystem
gcc-libs: /usr/lib/libssp.a exists in filesystem
gcc-libs: /usr/lib/libssp.so exists in filesystem
gcc-libs: /usr/lib/libssp.so.0 exists in filesystem
gcc-libs: /usr/lib/libssp.so.0.0.0 exists in filesystem
gcc-libs: /usr/lib/libssp_nonshared.a exists in filesystem
gcc-libs: /usr/lib/libstdc++.a exists in filesystem
gcc-libs: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so exists in filesystem
gcc-libs: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 exists in filesystem
gcc-libs: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.9 exists in filesystem
gcc-libs: /usr/lib/libsupc++.a exists in filesystem
gcc-libs: /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/libstdc++.mo exists in filesystem
gcc-libs: /usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/libstdc++.mo exists in filesystem
errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
The same thing happened when trying to install gnome and a few other programs. What's happening here, and how do I fix it?
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Have you done a system update lately (pacman -Syu). If so it looks like the mirror you are using is out of date. What version of gcc do you have?
The gcc package split into gcc-libs and gcc. You are only getting the update of gcc-libs and thus the resulting file conflicts with the old gcc package.
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