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libmcCain

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Registered: 2008-07-21

Posts: 7

/usr/share/applications/openbox.desktop: Openbox conflict SOLVED

I tried to upgrade but I'm getting an Openbox conflicting file, it's not the openlabel /usr/bin/obprop since I don't have it installed.

pacman -Q openbox
openbox 3.4.8-2

Targets (23): audacious-plugins-2.2-3  consolekit-0.4.1-2  
             devicekit-power-013-1  eog-2.28.2-1  firefox-i18n-3.5.6-1  
             fluidsynth-1.1.1-1  gtksourceview2-2.8.2-1  gedit-2.28.3-1  
             gnome2-user-docs-2.28.2-1  hal-info-0.20091130-1  hal-0.5.14-1  
             libdrm-2.4.17-2  libgl-7.6.1-1  intel-dri-7.6.1-1  
             libmpdclient-2.1-1  xcb-proto-1.6-1  libxcb-1.5-1  meld-1.3.1-2  
             mesa-7.6.1-1  mpd-0.15.6-2  openbox-3.4.9-1  xbmc-9.11_rc1-1  
             xorg-xkb-utils-7.5-2  

Total Download Size:   0,00 MB
Total Installed Size:   231,35 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] Y
checking package integrity...
(23/23)  checking for file conflicts        [#####################] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
openbox: /usr/share/applications/openbox.desktop exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

Last edited by libmcCain (2009-12-27 20:22:16)

majiq

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Registered: 2009-03-06

Posts: 259

Re: /usr/share/applications/openbox.desktop: Openbox conflict SOLVED

Already noted: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17555

SevenThunders

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Registered: 2009-10-15

Posts: 22

Re: /usr/share/applications/openbox.desktop: Openbox conflict SOLVED

I'm somewhat confused on how to use the PKGBUILD file provided as a fix in the bugs archive.  In particular openbox downloads into /var/cache/pacman/pkg  as a tar.gz archive so there is no obvious  openbox.install file. 

I'm just not up on the arcana of the package build process and a quick read of the documentation didn't quite help me.

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: /usr/share/applications/openbox.desktop: Openbox conflict SOLVED

As stated in the bug report, that PKGBUILD fixes the obprop conflict, so it's completely irrelevant here - majiq didn't read your post properly.

Use pacman (and common sense) to determine the cause of the conflict, and then decide how to resolve it.

majiq

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Registered: 2009-03-06

Posts: 259

Re: /usr/share/applications/openbox.desktop: Openbox conflict SOLVED

Touche. I shall read more carefully in the future.

*Hangs head in shame for the second time in two days on the forums*