2009/7/14 Allan McRae <allan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > bardo wrote: > >> 2009/7/14 Vincent Van Houtte <vvh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> >> >>> I had the same problem after installing firefox without updating the >>> whole >>> system. Only core, extra, community in use - no testing... >>> >>> >> >> Your mirror probably synced while the move was in progress, this is >> called bad luck ;) Anyway, selective upgrades are known to break the >> system, and this has been underlined recently, specifically related to >> this move. >> >> > > Nope - he went "pacman -Sy firefox" which pulled in new libraries (due to > versioned deps) but did not pull in all the other packages that were needed. > "pacman -Syu" is the only good way to do a "pacman -Sy"... Again, I know I have to keep my Archlinux-systems up to date, but I didn't have the time to completely update that particular pc, still wanting to update firefox since my grandfather *only* uses firefox on his computer. I just didn't know pacman didn't handle all dependencies for me and I thought upgrading a simple webbrowser would be safe.
