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icemaze

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Registered: 2009-11-07

Posts: 6

Issue with "provides" directive

Hi guys,
I'm trying to install inkscape, which depends on imagemagick.
I have a modified version of imagemagick installed (from AUR, imagemagick-fftw-6.6.2.9-1) which provides imagemagick and conflicts with it, as many modified versions do.

My problem is that pacman, for some reason, believes my version of imagemagick doesn't satisfy the dependency, tries to install the vanilla version and to remove the one I installed.

Is this a bug? Has this something to do with the fact that inkscape depends on "imagemagick>=6.6.2.0" (maybe explicit versions and "provides" don't go well together)?

I'd install inkscape-nognome but it fails compiling right now.

Thanks in advance for your help!

falconindy

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From: New York, USA

Registered: 2009-10-22

Posts: 4,111

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Re: Issue with "provides" directive

Has this something to do with the fact that inkscape depends on "imagemagick>=6.6.2.0" (maybe explicit versions and "provides" don't go well together)?

This. Pacman smartly doesn't assume the that a provides of a package are of the version on the package providing it. You'll need to version the provide on the AUR package.

Another solution, although not recommended, is to install inkscape with -Sd, avoiding dependency checks.

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icemaze

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Registered: 2009-11-07

Posts: 6

Re: Issue with "provides" directive

Thanks, now it works like a charm.