[Solved] Can't change by DE to KDE-meta : conflicting files

absolutevoid · 2010-08-20 04:00:15

Hi,

I was a KDEmod user and thought of trying out KDE-meta. I renamed .kdemod4 to .kde4 and did

# pacman -Rscnd kdemod-uninstall

after that, I accidently gave

# pacman -S kde

and after sometime, realised the fault and did ^C twice to quit. Then I again started to

# pacman -S kde-meta

After some packages with errors were redownloaded, this is the error I am getting:

error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
kdebase-runtime: /usr/share/icons/default.kde4 exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

I do not know further steps. what should be done now?
/var/cache/pacman/pkg has files of kdemod and kde-meta packages.

Please do help

Last edited by absolutevoid (2010-08-20 06:56:37)

Inxsible · 2010-08-20 04:15:58

remove the file in question and try to re-install kde-meta

absolutevoid · 2010-08-20 04:21:38

It worked. Thanks.

But by doing so, will my previous settings from KDEmod will be lost?

Inxsible · 2010-08-20 04:22:45

if you mean the user settings under .kdemod then no. All you are deleting is the /usr/share/icons/default.kde4 file.

Arch Linux

#1 2010-08-20 04:00:15

[Solved] Can't change by DE to KDE-meta : conflicting files

#2 2010-08-20 04:15:58

Re: [Solved] Can't change by DE to KDE-meta : conflicting files

#3 2010-08-20 04:21:38

Re: [Solved] Can't change by DE to KDE-meta : conflicting files

#4 2010-08-20 04:22:45

Re: [Solved] Can't change by DE to KDE-meta : conflicting files

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