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belhifet

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Registered: 2007-04-17

Posts: 39

[Solved] pacman -Syu failure

$ sudo pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
current is up to date
extra is up to date
unstable is up to date
community is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
:: Replace esd with extra/esound? [Y/n]
:: Replace xf86-video-i810 with extra/xf86-video-intel? [Y/n]
:: Replace xf86-video-via with extra/xf86-video-openchrome? [Y/n]
resolving dependencies...
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: xorg-server will be installed before its nvidia-96xx-utils dependency
looking for inter-conflicts...
warning: removing 'libgl' from target list because it conflicts with 'nvidia-96xx-utils'
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: intel-dri: requires libgl>=7.2
:: unichrome-dri: requires libgl>=7.1-2
:: xf86-video-ati: requires libgl>=7.2
:: xf86-video-mga: requires libgl>=7.2
:: xf86-video-savage: requires libgl>=7.2
:: xf86-video-sis: requires libgl>=7.2
:: xf86-video-tdfx: requires libgl>=7.2
:: xf86-video-trident: requires libgl>=7.2

Any ideas?

ghostHack

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From: Bristol UK

Registered: 2008-02-29

Posts: 261

Re: [Solved] pacman -Syu failure

Well, the packages that are complaining about 'requires libgl>=7.2' are all graphics card drivers, however, I'm guessing that you have an nvidia graphics card since you have nvidia-96xx-utils installed.  The nvidia drivers use a dedicated, replacement, libgl implimentation, not the one provided by X.org.  hence warning: removing 'libgl' from target list because it conflicts with 'nvidia-96xx-utils'

There are a couple of things you could do:

1) If you do indeed have nvidia graphics then you can remove the un-needed video drivers, (i.e. pacman -R intel-dri unichrome-dri xf86-video-ati xf86-video-mga xf86-video-savage xf86-video-sis xf86-video-tdfx xf86-video-trident).  This will allow the upgrade to continue.

2) if you don't have nvidia graphics then remove the mvidia-96xx-utils package

3) upgrade the nvidia-96xx-utils package first, then continue with the full upgrade (pacman -S nvidia-96xx-utils ; pacman -Su)

zsuffad

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Registered: 2008-09-25

Posts: 2

Re: [Solved] pacman -Syu failure

thanks solved my problem. [again]