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tmadhavan

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From: Wales :D

Registered: 2004-03-26

Posts: 441

Problem with Perl5,Pacman, new KDE packages - help PLZ!

Lo all.

Just doing my routine pacman -Syu, getting a perl error (think I had it before similarly, can't remember) from pacman.

When I run pacman -Syu I get

checking package integrity... done.
loading package data... done.
checking for file conflicts...
error: the following file conflicts were found:
  /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.4/i686-linux-thread-multi/perllocal.pod: exists in filesystem

Think I need to clear the cache or something? Sure that's what I did last time. Tried pacman -s, no luck.

Do I need to downgrade perl or something? Hope someone can help, it's really annoying I can't stay up to date.

Thanks
Thom

dp

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From: Zürich, Switzerland

Registered: 2003-05-27

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Re: Problem with Perl5,Pacman, new KDE packages - help PLZ!

i -Suyf 'ed it

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Xentac

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Registered: 2003-01-17

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Re: Problem with Perl5,Pacman, new KDE packages - help PLZ!

This is actually a bug and should be reported.  You need to know which package has that file though.

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Martillo1

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From: My kabila in Lavapiés

Registered: 2004-02-20

Posts: 66

Re: Problem with Perl5,Pacman, new KDE packages - help PLZ!

another error upgrading kde:

[root@xxxx yyyy]# srcpac -Sb arts
error: unresolvable dependencies:
  kdelibs: requires arts=1.2.2

[root@xxxx yyyy]# srcpac -Sb kdelibs
error: unresolvable dependencies:
  kdeaccessibility: requires kdelibs=3.2.2
  kdegraphics: requires kdelibs=3.2.2
  kdemultimedia: requires kdelibs=3.2.2

Xentac

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From: Victoria, BC

Registered: 2003-01-17

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Re: Problem with Perl5,Pacman, new KDE packages - help PLZ!

You might want to try srcpac -Syb

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tmadhavan

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From: Wales :D

Registered: 2004-03-26

Posts: 441

Re: Problem with Perl5,Pacman, new KDE packages - help PLZ!

Argh confused.

dp you reckon a

pacman -Syuf 

will help?

Xentac I'll report it as soon as I can. How can I find out which package has this file? Some sort of dependency check or something?

Thanks for the quick replies, not sure how to fix it though really.

Thom

tmadhavan

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From: Wales :D

Registered: 2004-03-26

Posts: 441

Re: Problem with Perl5,Pacman, new KDE packages - help PLZ!

Did a

pacman -Syuf

and that seemed to work, only I lost my settings for the KDE login screen for some reason, different login image etc etc. Nothing too annoying though as far as I know.

Thanks,
T.

cmf

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Registered: 2003-10-18

Posts: 86

Re: Problem with Perl5,Pacman, new KDE packages - help PLZ!

A few people mentioned this on IRC, we couldn't find what owned that file, but it seems from anotehr post to e spam assain, no idea why KDE is trying to write there, does anyone know which specific KDE pkg it is?

but yeah, it seems just forcing it works...

cmf

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Registered: 2003-10-18

Posts: 86

Re: Problem with Perl5,Pacman, new KDE packages - help PLZ!

yeah, i'll look into it, i don't use anything with perl modules afaik, (not a perl person though, so what do i know ) but i'll check his PKGBUILDs and see what's what.

Thanks
Lou

sarah31

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From: Middle of Canada

Registered: 2002-08-20

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Re: Problem with Perl5,Pacman, new KDE packages - help PLZ!

yes all perllocal.pod's should be removed

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