Upgrade dependency hell...

Benedict_White · 2010-03-08 23:25:54

One of the great things about Arch is pacman, and one of the great things about pacman is that it has, in the past at least, fixed dependency issues very very well.

Here is my problem, a pacman -Syu returns:

pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
:: Replace jack-audio-connection-kit with extra/jack? [Y/n] y
:: Replace kdelibs-experimental with extra/kdelibs? [Y/n] y
:: Replace klibc with core/mkinitcpio? [Y/n] y
:: Replace klibc-extras with core/mkinitcpio? [Y/n] y
:: Replace klibc-kbd with core/mkinitcpio? [Y/n] y
:: Replace klibc-module-init-tools with core/mkinitcpio? [Y/n] y
:: Replace klibc-udev with core/mkinitcpio? [Y/n] y
:: Replace mythweb with extra/mythplugins-mythweb? [Y/n] y
:: Replace nautilus-cd-burner with extra/brasero? [Y/n] y
resolving dependencies...
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: xorg-server will be installed before its nvidia-173xx-utils dependency
looking for inter-conflicts...
:: poppler conflicts with poppler-qt3. Remove poppler-qt3? [Y/n] y
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: kdelibs: requires phonon

OK, so lets fix this, and just add phonon:

pacman -S phonon
resolving dependencies...
warning: provider package was selected (phonon-gstreamer provides phonon-backend)
looking for inter-conflicts...
:: phonon conflicts with qt. Remove qt? [Y/n] y
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: phonon-gstreamer: requires qt
:: phonon: requires qt
:: kde-agent: requires qt
:: kdelibs: requires qt
:: kdesdk-poxml: requires qt
:: mythtv: requires qt
:: polkit-qt: requires qt
:: poppler-qt: requires qt>=4.5.3
:: pyqt: requires qt>=4.5.3
:: qca: requires qt
:: qimageblitz: requires qt>=4.4.3
:: qjackctl: requires qt
:: qscintilla: requires qt
:: skype-call-recorder: requires qt
:: smplayer: requires qt
:: soprano: requires qt
:: strigi: requires qt

See what I mean..
Any one got an idea of how to fix this?

tomk · 2010-03-08 23:49:55

Yes - read the news. This article in particular.

I'm pretty sure you've been using Arch long enough to know this, but I'll say it anyway - always read the news before you upgrade.

humanzoo · 2010-03-08 23:52:52

EDIT: Nevermind.... see above.

Last edited by humanzoo (2010-03-08 23:54:33)

Benedict_White · 2010-03-09 00:13:06

tomk wrote:

Yes - read the news. This article in particular.
I will have a go at this tomorrow. It is a bit late today.. but that looks like it will fix the problem.

tomk wrote:

I'm pretty sure you've been using Arch long enough to know this, but I'll say it anyway - always read the news before you upgrade.

Scratches head..

No, never actually had to read the news before.... normally it has just worked, and if it failed a quick look at the forums sorted it...

So is that my fault for not looking.... or Arch's for being so good...

tomk · 2010-03-09 01:37:55

A quick look at the forum would have worked this time too - there must have been a dozen threads about this.

Benedict_White · 2010-03-09 10:37:55

Ah.. I see the problem.. only a dozen threads... G,D&RVVF

falotromplastero · 2010-03-11 17:20:47

I've got the same problem and the answer given here doesn't work for me. Any other ideas??

flamelab · 2010-03-11 18:03:03

pacman -Sy --asdeps qt doesn't work for you ?

falotromplastero · 2010-03-11 22:17:01

No, it doesn't. because it asks me to install phonon and then when I try to install phonon it asks me to remove qt and I can't remove qt because pacman doesn't allow me.

Allan · 2010-03-11 22:38:15

pacman -S --asdep qt phonon

If that does not work, post some actual output.

falotromplastero · 2010-03-12 01:12:53

Solved. Thanks to all who helped.

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