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songgao

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[SOLVED] Pacman Dependency error with nouveau-dri and libgl

I am upgrading my system with

sudo pacman -Syu

The out put is as follows:

:: Synchronizing package databases...
 testing is up to date
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: nouveau-dri: requires libgl=7.10.1

It seems that the newest libgl is 7.10.2-1, while the newest nouveau-dri(7.10.1-2) requires 7.10.1-1. An upgrade operation will upgrade the libgl from 7.10.1-1 to 7.10.2-1, which result in a conflict with nouveau-dri.
Is there any workaround? Do I have to wait for the nouveau-dri update?

THANKS!

Last edited by songgao (2011-04-11 06:03:53)

ngoonee

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Re: [SOLVED] Pacman Dependency error with nouveau-dri and libgl

Most likely a partially updated mirror problem. nouveau-dri from [testing] here is 7.10.2-2 and relies on libgl=7.10.2

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songgao

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Re: [SOLVED] Pacman Dependency error with nouveau-dri and libgl

Thanks @ngoonee !

It turns out that this is because the mirror (mirrors.163.com/archlinux) I am using is broken. It is holding <libgl 7.10.2-1> without <nouveau-dri 7.10.1-2> and simultaneously. I changed to http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/ and the problem solves.

ngoonee

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Re: [SOLVED] Pacman Dependency error with nouveau-dri and libgl

Thanks @ngoonee !

It turns out that this is because the mirror (mirrors.163.com/archlinux) I am using is broken. It is holding <libgl 7.10.2-1> without <nouveau-dri 7.10.1-2> and simultaneously. I changed to http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/ and the problem solves.

You're welcome. The mirror is/was probably just affected by a partial sync (the letter l is earlier than n ).

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songgao

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Registered: 2011-04-11

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Re: [SOLVED] Pacman Dependency error with nouveau-dri and libgl

Thanks @ngoonee !

It turns out that this is because the mirror (mirrors.163.com/archlinux) I am using is broken. It is holding <libgl 7.10.2-1> without <nouveau-dri 7.10.1-2> and simultaneously. I changed to http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/ and the problem solves.

You're welcome. The mirror is/was probably just affected by a partial sync (the letter l is earlier than n ).

Yeah, that's a quite reasonable explaination :-)

Awebb

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Re: [SOLVED] Pacman Dependency error with nouveau-dri and libgl

I had a similar problem  half an hour ago, when I tried to update. Nvidia was asking for a kernel >=2.6.38 <2.6.39, but there was no such a version on my mirror. It seems to be a normal issue, when crucial packages get an update. It usually fixes itself after a couple of hours.