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I'm trying to install splashy. The Wiki says that splashy depends on initscripts-splashy, whcih i tried to install. Pacman told me that I need sysvinit-mod which I'm trying to install. I downloaded the tarball from AUR, decompressed it and ran makepkg. I then ran "sudo pacman -U sysvinit-mod-2.86-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz" and this is what I get:
jordanwb@LAPTOP sysvinit-mod]$ sudo pacman -U sysvinit-mod-2.86-2-i686.pkg.tar.
loading package data...
checking dependencies...
error: replacing packages with -U is not supported yet
error: you can replace packages manually using -Rd and -U
error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
:: sysvinit-mod: conflicts with sysvinit
[jordanwb@LAPTOP sysvinit-mod]$
If sysvinit-mod is already installed why does makpkg tell me:
[jordanwb@LAPTOP initscripts-splashy]$ makepkg
==> Making package: initscripts-splashy 2008.08-2 i686 (Thu Nov 6 01:23:05 EST 2008)
==> Checking Runtime Dependencies...
==> Missing Dependencies:
-> sysvinit-mod
==> Checking Buildtime Dependencies...
==> ERROR: Could not resolve all dependencies.
[jordanwb@LAPTOP initscripts-splashy]$
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I'm trying to install splashy. The Wiki says that splashy depends on initscripts-splashy, whcih i tried to install. Pacman told me that I need sysvinit-mod which I'm trying to install. I downloaded the tarball from AUR, decompressed it and ran makepkg. I then ran "sudo pacman -U sysvinit-mod-2.86-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz" and this is what I get:
jordanwb@LAPTOP sysvinit-mod]$ sudo pacman -U sysvinit-mod-2.86-2-i686.pkg.tar. loading package data... checking dependencies... error: replacing packages with -U is not supported yet error: you can replace packages manually using -Rd and -U error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies) :: sysvinit-mod: conflicts with sysvinit [jordanwb@LAPTOP sysvinit-mod]$
As you can see, there is an error when you did that and the reason is given "sysvinit-mod: conflicts with sysvinit". You must remove manually sysvinit with `pacman -Rd sysvinit` and after run `pacman -U sysvinit-mod-2.86-2-i686.pkg.tar`
If sysvinit-mod is already installed why does makpkg tell me:
[jordanwb@LAPTOP initscripts-splashy]$ makepkg
==> Making package: initscripts-splashy 2008.08-2 i686 (Thu Nov 6 01:23:05 EST 2008)
==> Checking Runtime Dependencies...
==> Missing Dependencies:
-> sysvinit-mod
==> Checking Buildtime Dependencies...
==> ERROR: Could not resolve all dependencies.
[jordanwb@LAPTOP initscripts-splashy]$
Actually sysvinit-mod was not installed because of the error.
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Okay thanks. When I install initscripts-splashy via "pacman -U whatever.tar.gz" it says that it conflicts with the initscripts package. Am I to do the same to initscripts as with sysvinit?
If I wanted to remove Splashy (if I don't like it or something else) is removal easy?
Last edited by jordanwb (2008-11-07 02:09:23)
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Okay thanks. When I install initscripts-splashy via "pacman -U whatever.tar.gz" it says that it conflicts with the initscripts package. Am I to do the same to initscripts as with sysvinit?
Yes
If I wanted to remove Splashy (if I don't like it or something else) is removal easy?
The answer again is yes -we are talking about Arch Linux -. It would be the reverse of the steps you did -uninstall initscripts-splashy, install initscripts, uninstall sysvinit-mod, install sysvinit-.
Last edited by BinkyTheClown (2008-11-07 02:17:14)
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Sweet thanks.
Ok so I finished following the instructions and rebooted my laptop. While booting it said "Something Failed. Killing Splashy". Now that's not a very helpful error message.
[Edit] Apparently I have to do a file system check. I think that's what caused Splashy to fail. I'll make this as a separate topic
Last edited by jordanwb (2008-11-07 02:51:03)
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