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patok

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Registered: 2007-10-18

Posts: 5

pacman complains with `"gcc-libs" is not in the package set` message

Hi,

today I wanted to do full system upgrade, but this happened:

# pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
current                   69,7K   84,9K/s 00:00:01 [#################################################] 100%
extra                    323,1K   17,5K/s 00:00:18 [#################################################] 100%
community                312,4K  219,0K/s 00:00:01 [#################################################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
:: Replace scrollkeeper with extra/rarian? [Y/n]
warning: apr: forcing upgrade to version 1.2.9-1
warning: dnsutils: forcing upgrade to version 9.4.1_P1-2
warning: ruby: forcing upgrade to version 1.8.6_p36-3
warning: sudo: forcing upgrade to version 1.6.9p4-1
warning: xpdf: forcing upgrade to version 3.02_pl1-1
resolving dependencies...
error: cannot resolve dependencies for "rarian" ("gcc-libs" is not in the package set)
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: rarian requires gcc-libs

It's obvious that gcc-libs package is missing in current package. I've found one similar problem here http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=283439. But I cannot solve it like that. I have current file included in /etc/pacman.conf already. I've also tried to change current to core and make the /etc/pacman.d/core file and it complained too:

# pacman -Su
:: Starting full system upgrade...
:: Replace util-linux with current/util-linux-ng? [Y/n]
:: Replace scrollkeeper with extra/rarian? [Y/n]
warning: apr: forcing upgrade to version 1.2.11-1
warning: apr-util: forcing upgrade to version 1.2.10-1
warning: dnsutils: forcing upgrade to version 9.4.1_P1-2
warning: ntp: forcing upgrade to version 4.2.4p4-2
warning: ruby: forcing upgrade to version 1.8.6_p111-2
warning: sudo: forcing upgrade to version 1.6.9p5-1
warning: xpdf: forcing upgrade to version 3.02_pl1-1

:: pacman has detected a newer version of the "pacman" package.
:: It is recommended that you allow pacman to upgrade itself
:: first, then you can re-run the operation with the newer version.
::
:: Upgrade pacman first? [Y/n]
resolving dependencies... done.
looking for inter-conflicts... done.

Targets: pacman-3.0.6-1 

Total Package Size:   0,80 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
checking package integrity... done.
cleaning up... done.
(1/1) checking for file conflicts                   [#################################################] 100%
error: could not prepare transaction
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
pacman: /etc/pacman.d/core exists in filesystem

errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

The last upgrade was almost perfect but now strange things happens. :^(

Can anyone help me to solve this, please??

kishd

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Registered: 2006-06-14

Posts: 401

Re: pacman complains with `"gcc-libs" is not in the package set` message

Did you replace current with core in your pacman.conf file?

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Allan

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Registered: 2007-06-09

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Re: pacman complains with `"gcc-libs" is not in the package set` message

I agree with the suggestion that you missed current in pacman.conf.  Try changing that.

If that doesn't work, perhaps force the pacman upgrade (pacman -Sy -f pacman).  You will probably need to fix your mirror list in the /etc/pacman.d/* files but then you should be fine to do a system update.

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patok

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Registered: 2007-10-18

Posts: 5

Re: pacman complains with `"gcc-libs" is not in the package set` message

Did you replace current with core in your pacman.conf file?

yes, the second output is related to pacman.conf with `current` replaced with `core` .... and good to say, that I did NOT forgot to update repositories with `pacman -Sy` before upgrade ;-)

patok

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Registered: 2007-10-18

Posts: 5

Re: pacman complains with `"gcc-libs" is not in the package set` message

huh, but I forgot to change [current] to [core] "directive" (not line with Include pointing to core file with mirror list).... but anyway It was a second time I tried this and first I didn't forgot  it. But, yes Allan, you could be right.... Maybe there are bad mirrors.

patok

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Registered: 2007-10-18

Posts: 5

Re: pacman complains with `"gcc-libs" is not in the package set` message

Ok, It works now! great

Thanks a lot.