Ok cool! Just though the error message was a bit erroneous in its description. Thanks again Dave ------------- root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cranky@xxxxxxxxxxxx On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Dennis Brendel <buddabrod@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Friday 09 October 2009 16:24:44 David Houston wrote: >> error: replacing packages with -U is not supported yet >> error: you can replace packages manually using -Rd and -U >> >> -U is not yet supported but can be done using -U? > > As Allan wrote: >> > You want: >> > pacman -Rd nvidia-utils >> > pacman -U nvidia-utils-beta-190.36-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz > > and this is what the message tells you to do. > >