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freestyler7

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Registered: 2010-11-02

Posts: 33

[Solved] Conflicts when trying to upgrade from KDE 4.6.3 to 4.6.5

[free@desktop ~]$ sudo pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
 multilib is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
:: Replace eigen with extra/eigen2? [Y/n] y
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
error: unresolvable package conflicts detected
error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
:: kdeedu-libkdeedu and kdeedu-data are in conflict

Any solutions?
Since i'm newbie, the only thing i can think of is forcing the removal of said packages and then re-install the kdeedu group or whole KDE, but it doesn't seem like a good idea.

Edit: also tried another mirror to be sure but nothing changed.

Edit2: I removed kdeedu-data and the 4 packages that relied on it with a simple -R and when the upgrade was complete i just re-installed the kdeedu group package to get the 4 packages i removed earlier.

Some info that might help developers prevent this from happening again: The standard behavior afaik on today's upgrade is pacman asking you to remove the kdeedu-data package and then the upgrade proceeds normally.
In my case the system was about one month old and on my -Syu today i upgraded pacman first. So basically i'm coming from an "older installation".

Last edited by freestyler7 (2011-07-07 20:50:58)

ilpianista

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Registered: 2007-10-06

Posts: 568

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Re: [Solved] Conflicts when trying to upgrade from KDE 4.6.3 to 4.6.5

Are you sure you've 4.6.3 installed? I guess you've 4.6.2. Try updating with --ignore kdeedu-data

freestyler7

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Registered: 2010-11-02

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Re: [Solved] Conflicts when trying to upgrade from KDE 4.6.3 to 4.6.5

Are you sure you've 4.6.3 installed? I guess you've 4.6.2. Try updating with --ignore kdeedu-data

I updated my first post btw. My installed version was 4.6.3. I checked to make sure from the standard "about KDE" window and also i re-checked now my pacman cache where i have 4.6.3.

ilpianista

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Re: [Solved] Conflicts when trying to upgrade from KDE 4.6.3 to 4.6.5

Ok, probably you had installed kdeedu-data 4.6.3-1; in [extra] we had kdeedu-data 4.6.3-2 (I removed it some minutes ago). kdeedu-libkdeedu is already set up to replace kdeedu-data, should be fixed now.