On Wed, June 17, 2009 7:49 pm, David C. Rankin wrote: > DR, List > > Here is the situation after the difficulty I had installing kde-unstable > on > the x86_64 box where I finally just installed with '-f', I have the exact > setup on an i686 box where I am trying to install kde-unstable, but this > time > finding a way to do it without resorting to the '-f' option. On the box, I > have kdemod3 installed and configured and I have never specifically > installed > kde4 from anywhere (I guess I got it by default with the Arch install). > > So far, all packages for kde-unstable have been downloaded to the i686 > box > when I tried to install kde-unstable with 'pacman -Sy kde kde-extragear'. > There were 20000+ lines of conflicts of the following type: Egads! How many times do I have to say it?!?!? 1) First UNINSTALL any existing KDE packages. i.e., repeat: pacman -Rs kde-<whatever> 2) Then, install KDE from unstable. i.e., pacman -S kde Sheesh! :-) DR
