Problem updating a package using Yaourt [solved]

the[V]oid · 2009-05-13 11:05:49

I am tryint to install Xmonad following this wiki article.
For the installation of packages from AUR I am using Yaourt. When I try to install the xmonad-contrib-darcs package I get this error:

Bad interface file: /usr/lib/utf8-string-0.3.4/ghc-6.10.2/Codec/Binary/UTF8/String.hi mismatched interface file versions (wanted "6103", got "6102")

So I performed the following to check out whether there is a newer version:

$ yaourt -Ss haskell-utf8-string
community/haskell-utf8-string 0.3.4-3 [installed] 
     Support for reading and writing UTF8 Strings
aur/haskell-utf8-string 0.3.4-4 [0.3.4-3 installed] (110)
    Support for reading and writing UTF8 Strings

So there is. But when ever I try to upgrade it by

yaourt -S -aur haskell-utf8-string

it remains the same version. What am I doing wrong?

Last edited by the[V]oid (2009-05-14 11:03:14)

blasse · 2009-05-13 11:18:30

Try yaourt -Sb haskell-utf8-string (and eventually bump version yourself) or yaourt haskell-utf8-string and choose right one in interactive install.

thisperishedmin · 2009-05-13 11:19:17

I believe it would be:

yaourt -U --upgrade <file.pkg.tar.gz>

you should be able to do "yaourt -U --upgrade haskell-utf8-string" if you dont have the package on your computer. Disclaimer: Ive never updated one package before so I dont know for sure if that will work...

doing a "pacman -Syu" would upgrade system wide.

yaourt -Su --aur

will upgrade all AUR packages.

Hope something here helps...I'm not TOO familiar with error messages and all yet - but I should be close =P

for more info:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=25718

tomk · 2009-05-13 11:19:53

Firstly, yaourt is giving you wrong information. The package is in community only, not community and AUR. Secondly, if you actually checked the package details page, you would see that it has just been updated to day, so you will need to wait for your mirror to sync.

Finally, please use a more descriptive title in future. The thread title should summarise the topic under discussion.

blasse · 2009-05-14 05:54:10

tomk wrote:

Firstly, yaourt is giving you wrong information. The package is in community only, not community and AUR.

Yaourt reports pkgs in community as binaries (community) and AUR (to build it yourself using attached pkgbuild).
It should be tha same version, but sometimes binary hits community a bit later than pkgbuild change

the[V]oid · 2009-05-14 10:56:32

blasse wrote:

Try yaourt -Sb haskell-utf8-string

Thanks, that worked for me!

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Problem updating a package using Yaourt [solved]

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