X manager limbo

dtw · 2004-08-05 14:51:22

i know other people are having probs with this cos i saw people ask about it on IRC yesterday.

I'm trying to upgrade xfree86 4.3 to xorg but it won't let me cos i can't remove ttf-bitstream-vera cos it is a dep of xfree86 even tho i want to remove xfree86 as well!

I have tried the following pacman commands

pacman -Su
pacman -Sf xorg
pacman -Rf ttf-bistream-vera
pacman -Suf
pacman -Rf xfree86

when i try to do the last one i get a long list of things that dep on xfree86 some of which i am trying to upgrade but they dep on xorg. so i can't remove xfree86 cos several apps dep on it and i can't install xorg and replace these apps cos i can't remove xfree86.

help?

dp · 2004-08-05 15:13:47

- 1) make your system up-to-date (-Suy)
(it will for sure ask to remove bitstream, because it's in the new xfree86)

- 2) -S xorg (this will replace xfree86 with xorg)

dtw · 2004-08-05 15:53:35

so i had to update to the new xfree86 to be able to remove it? makes sense. i just removed all the back deps, installed xorg and reinstalled all my apps from /var/cache/pacman/pkg

Xentac · 2004-08-05 16:24:35

Your error in your other method was the pacman -Rf. -Rf will remove and ignore any file conflicts (which don't exist when removing). You wanted -Rd.

dtw · 2004-08-05 18:00:01

ahhhhh

would pacman -Sud also have worked? Not a safe option generally but i had no internet conection up at the time and all the packages i needed and wanted were in the cache

Xentac · 2004-08-05 20:28:52

Hmm... -Sud might have worked, but more likely it would have broken things more. It also means it'll ignore dependencies on upgrade.

It's better to hand-upgrade the specific problems and then auto-upgrade the rest.

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#1 2004-08-05 14:51:22

X manager limbo

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Re: X manager limbo

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