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Romanrp

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Registered: 2009-11-19

Posts: 117

[solved]system won't upgrade (files exist in the filesystem)

Everytime I try to upgrade I get this message

boost: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Pyste/exporterutils.py exists in filesystem
boost: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Pyste/exporterutils.pyc exists in filesystem
boost: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Pyste/infos.py exists in filesystem
boost: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Pyste/infos.pyc exists in filesystem
boost: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Pyste/policies.py exists in filesystem
boost: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Pyste/policies.pyc exists in filesystem
boost: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Pyste/pyste.py exists in filesystem
boost: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Pyste/pyste.pyc exists in filesystem
boost: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Pyste/settings.py exists in filesystem
boost: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Pyste/settings.pyc exists in filesystem
boost: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Pyste/utils.py exists in filesystem
boost: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Pyste/utils.pyc exists in filesystem
boost: /usr/share/licenses/boost/LICENSE_1_0.txt exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded."

The list itself is a lot ,lot longer,this is just a tiny snapshot.
I had a look around on the forums and there were people having the same" problem.
Is there a way around this other than "pacman -Qo" everything?

Last edited by Romanrp (2010-01-17 20:41:17)

anonymous_user

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Registered: 2009-08-28

Posts: 3,059

Re: [solved]system won't upgrade (files exist in the filesystem)

When you get that error, usually people suggest just deleting the file(s) and then upgrading should work.

x0rg

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From: Switzerland

Registered: 2009-07-12

Posts: 116

Re: [solved]system won't upgrade (files exist in the filesystem)

or use the -f flag in pacman. That should work too.

Romanrp

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Registered: 2009-11-19

Posts: 117

Re: [solved]system won't upgrade (files exist in the filesystem)

there are at least 500+ files so deleting them won't be easy,
However pacman -fSyu worked and my system is now up to date
although I hope forcing it didn't break my system.
But it worked so thanks!

skottish

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From: Here

Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: [solved]system won't upgrade (files exist in the filesystem)

For future reference:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=56373

You can break your system severely by forcing upgrades. If you didn't already (or didn't read the output when upgrading), you may want to go through /var/log/pacman.log and look to see if there's any information that's you missed about these particular upgrades before you restart your system.