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jmak

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Registered: 2008-12-21

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conflicting files [SOLVED]

Hello,

I tried to upgrade my system and I get this error message. Any idea, how to fix this?

(87/87) checking for file conflicts                 [#####################] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
lib32-glibc: /usr/bin/ldd32 exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
[root@myhost mak]#

Thanks,
jmak

Last edited by jmak (2009-12-21 02:01:42)

Allan

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Re: conflicting files [SOLVED]

What package owns that file?

pacman -Qo /usr/bin/ldd32

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munkyeetr

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Re: conflicting files [SOLVED]

jmak,

Someone else may come along with a more elegant solution, but when I've been faced with that I situation I usually move (not copy, because it's complaining that it exists) the offending file somewhere safe, then try the upgrade again. Given the location you'll need to use root or sudo

# mv /usr/bin/ldd32 /root

That way if the upgrade still doesn't complete, you can move the file back to at least maintain the status quo.

Hope this helps,
Munky

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jmak

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Registered: 2008-12-21

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Re: conflicting files [SOLVED]

What package owns that file?

pacman -Qo /usr/bin/ldd32

I got this.

[root@myhost mak]# pacman -Qo /usr/bin/ldd32
error: No package owns /usr/bin/ldd32
[root@myhost mak]#

jmak

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Registered: 2008-12-21

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Re: conflicting files [SOLVED]

jmak,

Someone else may come along with a more elegant solution, but when I've been faced with that I situation I usually move (not copy, because it's complaining that it exists) the offending file somewhere safe, then try the upgrade again. Given the location you'll need to use root or sudo

# mv /usr/bin/ldd32 /root

That way if the upgrade still doesn't complete, you can move the file back to at least maintain the status quo.

Hope this helps,
Munky

Thanks a lot, this solved the problem.

jmak

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Re: conflicting files [SOLVED]

For future reference, there is a sticky thread about these kinds of problems: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=56373

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