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Carlwill

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From: Orlando, FL

Registered: 2008-10-06

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Tried To Install Gnome3 = Fail

For some reason on my new fresh Arch Linux install I tried installing Gnome3 today and it failed:

[root@slave ~]# pacman -S gnome
:: There are 28 members in group gnome:
:: Repository testing
   1) at-spi2-atk  2) at-spi2-core  3) epiphany  4) gnome-applets  5) gnome-backgrounds  6) gnome-control-center  7) gnome-desktop
   8) gnome-icon-theme  9) gnome-icon-theme-extras  10) gnome-icon-theme-symbolic  11) gnome-keyring  12) gnome-media  13) gnome-panel
   14) gnome-screensaver  15) gnome-session  16) gnome-settings-daemon  17) gnome-shell  18) gnome-terminal  19) gnome-themes-standard
   20) gnome-user-docs  21) metacity  22) mutter  23) nautilus  24) notification-daemon  25) yelp
:: Repository extra
   26) gnome2-user-docs  27) gnome-mime-data  28) gnome-themes

Enter a selection (default=all): 
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
error: unresolvable package conflicts detected
error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
:: gnome-themes-standard and gnome-themes are in conflict

How do I resolve of move past this conflict? I don't have any version of Gnome installed since this is a fresh install. Not sure what would be conflicting beyond the error above.

Last edited by Carlwill (2011-04-21 13:49:00)

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hcjl

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From: berlin

Registered: 2007-06-29

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Re: Tried To Install Gnome3 = Fail

pacman -S testing/gnome

Carlwill

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From: Orlando, FL

Registered: 2008-10-06

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Re: Tried To Install Gnome3 = Fail

pacman -S testing/gnome

Sorry. This was my 1st time using Testing. So when I installed Xorg, I did:

# pacman -S xorg-server xorg-xinit xorg-utils xorg-server-utils

Does this mean I need to do testing/* for Xorg as well?

Last edited by Carlwill (2011-04-21 14:30:01)

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mcmillan

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Registered: 2006-04-06

Posts: 737

Re: Tried To Install Gnome3 = Fail

The reason it's necessary is because one of the gnome packages from testing is meant to replace one from extra, while giving the command pacman -S gnome tells it to install everything in the gnome group - including the stuff from extra that has isn't needed anymore and in one case a package that generates a conflict.

It shouldn't be necessary to explicitly tell pacman to install from testing for most other packages.

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

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Re: Tried To Install Gnome3 = Fail

gnome 3 wiki exists for a reason

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