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KENTOSI

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From: Sydney, Australia

Registered: 2005-02-27

Posts: 69

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[SOLVED] cyclic dependancies with gnome

When i run

pacman -Syu

it says that mozilla conflicts with mozilla-firefox and asks if I want to remove it.  So I say yes.  It then starts downloading about 50 packages which takes about 15 mins.  No problems.

Then however, i get a message saying that it can't remove mozilla because evolution-data-server relies on it.  Fair enough.  I don't use evolution, so i try to do:

[root@nazgul gautam]# pacman -R evolution-data-server
error: this will break the following dependencies:
  evolution-data-server: is required by gnome-panel

Which is wierd, coz I don't see why gnome-panel would need this.  Anyways, I try:

[root@nazgul gautam]# pacman -R gnome-panel
error: this will break the following dependencies:
  gnome-panel: is required by gnome-applets
  gnome-panel: is required by gnome-netstatus
  gnome-panel: is required by gnome-utils
  gnome-panel: is required by libgail-gnome
  gnome-panel: is required by gnome-python-extras

now, I need those packages coz I use gnome a lot. 

So my problem is: I wanna update my whole system but I can't!!!   Any ideas guys?[/code]

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~gautam

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: [SOLVED] cyclic dependancies with gnome

From: http://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?do=details&id=2601

update firefox by itself:
pacman -S mozilla-firefox
then update the rest:
pacman -Su

JGC

Developer

Registered: 2003-12-03

Posts: 1,664

Re: [SOLVED] cyclic dependancies with gnome

Just delete mozilla and install firefox. Mozilla is only needed if you want to use mozilla, otherwise, everything can use the firefox browser (yelp, epiphany, galeon, evolution, etc etc).

KENTOSI

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From: Sydney, Australia

Registered: 2005-02-27

Posts: 69

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Re: [SOLVED] cyclic dependancies with gnome

Yep.  Thanks guys.  All fixed.

Here's what I did:

pacman -Sy mozilla
pacman -Suy

Basically I had to upgrade mozilla first.  With the upgrade the un-needed dependancies are removed.  Phew!

And now, to delete mozilla altogether ...  8)

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~gautam