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dartagnan

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Registered: 2009-05-31

Posts: 7

Cannot upgrade due to dependency conflict

Hello, I wanted to upgrade my system through

pacman -Syu

However, the update procedure aborts with an error saying that Firefox-3.5 requires Xulrunner-1.9.1, below is the relevant part of the output:

resolving dependencies...
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: xorg-server will be installed before its nvidia-utils dependency
looking for inter-conflicts...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: firefox-3.5: requires xulrunner=1.9.1

I have checked, and it seems that the correct version of xulrunner is installed:

$ pacman -Qi xulrunner
Name           : xulrunner
Version        : 1.9.1-1
URL            : http://wiki.mozilla.org/XUL:Xul_Runner
Licenses       : MPL  GPL  LGPL
Groups         : None
Provides       : gecko-sdk
Depends On     : gtk2>=2.16.2  gcc-libs>=4.4.0  libidl2>=0.8.13  mozilla-common  nss>=3.12.3  nspr>=4.8  libxt
                 hunspell>=1.2.8  startup-notification>=0.10  mime-types
Optional Deps  : libgnomeui
Required By    : firefox-3.5
Conflicts With : None
Replaces       : gecko-sdk
Installed Size : 65784.00 K
Packager       : Unknown Packager
Architecture   : i686
Build Date     : Fri 03 Jul 2009 03:46:14 PM CEST
Install Date   : Fri 10 Jul 2009 06:03:42 PM CEST
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : No

Google has given me little help in this issue, so I am asking wether someone else has already encountered this problem, and what the solution can be.

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: Cannot upgrade due to dependency conflict

you have a firefox-3.5 package installed which is not our package.  that need that version and pacman whats to update it to 1.9.1.2-1

Last edited by wonder (2009-08-14 20:11:43)

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evr

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Registered: 2009-01-23

Posts: 554

Re: Cannot upgrade due to dependency conflict

you shoud be able to force the update of xulrunner and then recompile firefox-3.5 with the new version.  Any reason you're using that version instead of the firefox in extra?

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: Cannot upgrade due to dependency conflict

you shoud be able to force the update of xulrunner and then recompile firefox-3.5 with the new version.  Any reason you're using that version instead of the firefox in extra?

why force it when it can do much easy. pacman -R firefox-3.5 and then pacman -Syu firefox

Last edited by wonder (2009-08-14 20:19:38)

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Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.

dartagnan

Member

Registered: 2009-05-31

Posts: 7

Re: Cannot upgrade due to dependency conflict

you shoud be able to force the update of xulrunner and then recompile firefox-3.5 with the new version.  Any reason you're using that version instead of the firefox in extra?

why force it when it can do much easy. pacman -R firefox-3.5 and then pacman -Syu firefox

Hi, Wonder, thanks for the reply. That solved my problem.

Evr: I was using the AUR-version only by fault, I do not know how I have not seen that there was the same package available in the repositories as well...