Can't install ntfs-3g

tgoossens · 2011-02-11 19:51:43

The situation I am in is this: When I connect an external usb drive it is mounted as read only.
On the wiki I found that I should install ntfs-3g .

So i did the following:

sudo pacman -S ntfs-3g

Output:
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checking package integrity...
(1/1) checking for file conflicts                  [######################] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
ntfs-3g: /sbin/mount.ntfs exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

What I think is that it has to do something with a simlink that i made.

Thanks in advance

wonder · 2011-02-11 19:55:26

pacman -Qo /sbin/mount.ntfs

if nothing comes, rm /sbin/mount.ntfs && pacman -Syu ntfs-3g

tgoossens · 2011-02-11 20:06:14

Hi thanks for the fast answer but none of those commands work:

pacman -Qo /sbin/mount.ntfs
----------------------------------------
error: No package owns /sbin/mount.ntfs

rm /sbin/mount.ntfs && pacman -Syu ntfs-3g
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rm: cannot remove `/sbin/mount.ntfs': No such file or directory

.:B:. · 2011-02-11 21:16:12

I think you should re-read what wonder says, even if it doesn't exactly predict your output, a bit of logical thinking should tell you there is only one solution .

tgoossens · 2011-02-11 21:40:13

I've been able to install it but I am not sure why I've been able to achieve this.

This are the things I did:
* I created a file mount.ntfs but i deleted it again because it didn't help
* Then I retried some of the commands of 'wonder' also with ../sbin/

Everything works now but I would like to know what the 'key' was ?

EDIT: Or at least the way I could find out what did right

Thanks a lot!

Last edited by tgoossens (2011-02-11 21:40:48)

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#1 2011-02-11 19:51:43

Can't install ntfs-3g

#2 2011-02-11 19:55:26

Re: Can't install ntfs-3g

#3 2011-02-11 20:06:14

Re: Can't install ntfs-3g

#4 2011-02-11 21:16:12

Re: Can't install ntfs-3g

#5 2011-02-11 21:40:13

Re: Can't install ntfs-3g

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