Error When Upgrading Python2-distribute Package

cb474 · 2011-03-29 08:40:29

I'm getting this error when upgrading python2-distribute:

error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
python2-distribute: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.pyo exists in filesystem

How can I resolve this? Thanks.

ngoonee · 2011-03-29 08:59:16

Check what package owns that file, if none then its probably safe to overwrite.

cb474 · 2011-03-30 05:26:13

Thanks for the help. Pacman -Qi says that python2-distribute is required by deluge. So now what?

$ pacman -Qi python2-distribute
Name           : python2-distribute
Version        : 0.6.14-2
URL            : http://packages.python.org/distribute
Licenses       : PSF
Groups         : None
Provides       : setuptools=0.6c11
Depends On     : python2
Optional Deps  : None
Required By    : deluge
Conflicts With : setuptools
Replaces       : setuptools
Installed Size : 1288.00 K
Packager       : Stéphane Gaudreault <stephane@archlinux.org>
Architecture   : any
Build Date     : Fri 22 Oct 2010 06:23:10 PM PDT
Install Date   : Sat 30 Oct 2010 01:06:51 AM PDT
Install Reason : Installed as a dependency for another package
Install Script : No
Description    : A collection of extensions to the Python 2 distutils

Allan · 2011-03-30 05:27:26

That was not the suggestion...

ggarron · 2011-03-30 15:42:46

cb474 wrote:

Thanks for the help. Pacman -Qi says that python2-distribute is required by deluge. So now what?

Try removing python2-distribute

pacman -R python2-distribute

That worked for me.

http://www.go2linux.org/linux/2011/03/p … system-931

Last edited by ggarron (2011-03-30 15:43:52)

cb474 · 2011-03-30 19:02:41

Allan wrote:

That was not the suggestion...

Okay, well then what was? Obviously I didn't understand the suggestion. This response is completely unhelpful.

ggarron wrote:

Try removing python2-distribute
pacman -R python2-distribute
That worked for me.

Thanks ggarron. If deluge requires the package, won't this make deluge non-functional?

tomk · 2011-03-30 19:43:25

cb474 wrote:

Allan wrote:
That was not the suggestion...
Okay, well then what was?

ngoonee wrote:

Check what package owns that file, if none then its probably safe to overwrite.

cb474 wrote:

Obviously I didn't understand the suggestion. This response is completely unhelpful.

If you dont know how to do that, maybe you should ask, instead of entering a completely unrelated pacman command.

wonder · 2011-03-30 19:44:39

pacman -Qo /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.pyo

cb474 · 2011-03-31 08:03:15

tomk wrote:

cb474 wrote:
Allan wrote:
That was not the suggestion...
Okay, well then what was?
ngoonee wrote:
Check what package owns that file, if none then its probably safe to overwrite.
cb474 wrote:
Obviously I didn't understand the suggestion. This response is completely unhelpful.
If you dont know how to do that, maybe you should ask, instead of entering a completely unrelated pacman command.

I thought that's what I was doing. So I didn't actually know what it was that I was missing and Allan's response didn't clarify anything.

Excuse me for not understanding something. I'm not a coder or developer or anything. Why do people make so many assumptions and post such snotty unhelpful things? If you don't want to help, why are you wasting your time just to be condescending?

wonder wrote:

pacman -Qo /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.pyo

Thank you wonder. Very helpful. Now I understand that there's a difference between a package "owning" a file and something "depending" on a package.

Last edited by cb474 (2011-03-31 08:10:04)

ngoonee · 2011-03-31 08:07:43

cb474 wrote:

Excuse me for not understanding something. I'm not a coder or developer or anything. Why do people make so many assumptions and post such snotty unhelpful things? If you don't want to help, why are you wasting your time just to be condescending?

More to the point, why are you not reading man pages? Teach a man to fish, and all that..... Arch users are expected to show initiative and be able to DIY once given pointers (which were given almost immediately after you posted this thread). You don't need to be a coder or dev (I am neither) to be able to read man pages.

cb474 · 2011-03-31 08:28:55

Sorry ngoonee it was not your post that was unhelpful, it was Allan's. I got confused because tomk quoted people's posts out of order, misrepresenting the conversation that had actually taken place in this thread. I corrected my post.

So your initial post was helpful. But I misunderstood it because I didn't realize that "owning" something and "depending" are a different thing.

I use a huge amount of initiative with Arch (for no good reason other than I like Linux). So I don't appreciate the assumption that I don't. I spend lots of time searching on problems, reading the wiki, and looking at the man pages, before asking questions.

But if I simply don't get what a word means and honestly think I've done what you initially suggested and then am told by Allan nothing more than "that was not the suggestion," how am I supposed to know what is the part that I'm not understanding? Can't I have an honest misunderstanding? There's a difference between giving someone pointers, as you say, and just pointing out that someone doesn't get it.

I feel like all the time, not just here, but in other Linux forums too, people (including forum moderators, developers, and very experienced users) chime into a thread more to tell someone they're doing something wrong (and therefore display their superiority) than to be helpful. Honsetly, I really try to avoid posting questions, if I possibly can, partly because I hate the condescending unhelpful responses one gets half of the time.

In the end, if I just didn't know what part I was missing or not understanding, then there was no way for me to even know that I should read the pacman man pages or where to go next. So I maintain that Allan's post was completey unhelpful and tomk just chimed in to be consdescending.

P.S. wonder, thank you again for seeing what the misunderstanding was and actually just giving me the information I needed.

Last edited by cb474 (2011-03-31 08:37:54)

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