On Wednesday 17 June 2009 19:04:42 Dan McGee wrote: > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 6:49 PM, David C. > > Rankin<drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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: > > <snip> > > > I give up ;-( I'm pulling out the Nuclear option. I have > > uninstalled everything related to kde and kde-unstable still will not > > install. This has to be some type of bug. I'll report back after I get my > > system installed and running.... > > So you are right on a few counts. You *don't* have KDE installed, but > you told it to get installed when you did the -Syu operation. > > See how pacman prompts twice for "group kde"? The first time is for > the [kde-unstable] repository; the second time is for [extra]. I'm not > familiar with the whole KDE setup, so I can't speak for kde-extragear, > but this is almost certainly what is going on. > > Notice your conflict messages- they aren't saying anything about > conflicts with the filesystem, but conflicts between packages that are > to be installed: > usr/lib/libsuperkaramba.so exists in both 'kdeutils-superkaramba' > and 'kdeutils' > > The short-term fix is to do exactly as you did, but only answer "Y" to > the first kde group prompt, and "N" to the following one. > > -Dan I thought about that too Dan, but that isn't the case. I got the same blow up of conflicts with a simple: pacman -S kde Dunno, something is rotten somewhere... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
