first pacman use conflicting files

markp1989 · 2009-02-28 13:49:29

i just installed arch on my new machine, and im trying to install openbox and xorg.

when i run

pacman -S xorg

it downloads, then complains about confilcting files.

./CHANGELOG exists in both 'glibc' and 'pcre'
./CHANGELOG exists in both 'glibc' and 'textinfo'
./CHANGELOG exists in both 'glibc' and 'libpng
./CHANGELOG exists in both 'pcre' and 'textinfo'
./CHANGELOG exists in both 'pcre' and 'libpng
./CHANGELOG exists in both 'textinfo' and 'libpng''

i had this problem when i didn my first install , but cant remember how i got around it, any ideas?

Thanks Markp1989

Last edited by markp1989 (2009-02-28 13:51:31)

shining · 2009-02-28 14:29:56

Which pacman version? Is your system up-to-date? Try pacman -Syu , and choose to upgrade pacman first if it asks you.

markp1989 · 2009-02-28 15:24:15

shining wrote:

Which pacman version? Is your system up-to-date? Try pacman -Syu , and choose to upgrade pacman first if it asks you.

i tried upgrading pacman, now if i trry to install xorg, pacman tries to remoe initscripts

udev conflicts with initscripts . remove initscripts? [Y/n]

i dont want to remove init scripts, because i know that this will cause arch to fail to boot.

not sure what to do now, this shouldnt happen, i have installed arch before, and always thought pacman was a good package manager, i gues i was wrong lol

any one got any ideas to get this working properly?

thanks Markp1989

shining · 2009-02-28 15:28:08

markp1989 wrote:

any one got any ideas to get this working properly?

pacman -Su

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#1 2009-02-28 13:49:29

first pacman use conflicting files

#2 2009-02-28 14:29:56

Re: first pacman use conflicting files

#3 2009-02-28 15:24:15

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