On Wednesday 17 February 2010 16:40:52 you wrote: > On 17/02/10 15:31, richard terry wrote: > > :: phonon conflicts with qt. Remove qt? [Y/n] > > http://www.archlinux.org/news/483/ > Thanks, Yes I did read that before I posted. I can see no mention of this problem in that article, as you see from my post I did exactly as shown below. The phonon conflict come up after I tried to install phonon as the failure seemed to suggest it was needed. Could you explain my error further. thanks. Richard # pacman -Sy --asdeps qt :: Synchronizing package databases... archlinuxfr 24.9K 25.0K/s 00:00:01 [##########################################################################################################################################] 100% core 35.9K 133.0K/s 00:00:00 [##########################################################################################################################################] 100% extra 449.0K 157.1K/s 00:00:03 [##########################################################################################################################################] 100% community 358.0K 156.8K/s 00:00:02 [##########################################################################################################################################] 100% resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: qtscriptgenerator: requires phonon # pacman -S phonon resolving dependencies... warning: provider package was selected (phonon-gstreamer provides phonon- backend) looking for inter-conflicts... :: phonon conflicts with qt. Remove qt? [Y/n]