On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Samuel Baldwin <recursive.forest@xxxxxxxxx > wrote: > I'm trying to update my system with 'pacman -Syu', but doing so > discovers a conflict with phonon; phonon conflicts with qt, but > kdelibs apparently needs both. What should I do? Trying to install > phonon by hand requires uninstalling qt, but other packages depend on > it (including kdelibs). > > arrakis^samuel# pacman -Syu > :: Synchronizing package databases... > core is up to date > extra is up to date > community is up to date > :: Starting full system upgrade... > :: Replace kdelibs-experimental with extra/kdelibs? [Y/n] > :: Replace kernel-headers with core/linux-api-headers? [Y/n] > :: Replace pil with extra/python-imaging? [Y/n] > warning: quodlibet-plugins: local (20080926-2) is newer than extra (2.2-1) > resolving dependencies... > warning: dependency cycle detected: > warning: xorg-server will be installed before its nvidia-utils dependency > looking for inter-conflicts... > error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) > :: kdelibs: requires phonon > -- > Samuel Baldwin - logik.li > This was posted on planet arch, arch-news, and already discussed here on the list. What you basically need to do is: $ pacman -Sy --asdeps qt $ pacman -Su This should fix the problem.