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xaiviax

Member

From: Michigan

Registered: 2008-11-04

Posts: 282

pacman libflashplayer.so issue

1st off, I am more interested in the how's and why's and understanding of this issue, than in solving it. 

Issue:  This error occurs when upgrading flashplugin:

Targets (1): flashplugin-10.0.15.3-1 

Total Download Size:    0.00 MB
Total Installed Size:   12.57 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
checking package integrity...
(1/1) checking for file conflicts                   [#####################] 100%
error: could not prepare transaction
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
flashplugin: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

pacman -Qo /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
error: No package owns /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

So my questions are:

From the above info, it should be safe to force the upgrade?
Why does the current flashplugin (10.0.12.36-4) not own libflashplayer.so?
Is this a bug that should be reported?

Any and all information is appreciated.

skottish

Forum Fellow

From: Here

Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: pacman libflashplayer.so issue

The error message will appear in a few different contexts. If you ever upgraded that file manually while a package was in place, that would cause the error. Or, if one of the 79 different versions of Flash in AUR didn't install stuff properly, that would do it too. I believe that there are other cases also, but I don't know what they are off the top of my head.

So you know, pacman has quite a bit of information on files in the file system including file size. Take a look at the folders under /var/lib/pacman/local/, in particular the 'desc' files.

Anyway, for this particular file it's fine to force upgrade.

Echo

Member

From: Ohio, United States

Registered: 2006-05-16

Posts: 239

Re: pacman libflashplayer.so issue

I had the same issue. My problem I believe was caused by the flashplugin from extra upgrading a previously installed flashplugin from testing. I chose to

pacman -Rsc flashplugin

then

pacman -S flashplugin