On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:41:53PM +0100, Karol Blazewicz wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Fons Adriaensen <fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Because it is apparently a dependency of octave. And pacman tried to > > install it, but failed due to the 'no version information'. > > 'pacman -S foo' doesn't work that way. Could you elaborate a bit on that ? Isn't 'pacman -S foo' supposed to either install (if not yet installed) or update any dependencies of 'foo' ? That anyway is what apperently it has done for the last three years I've been using it... I can perfectly understand that this will trigger an avalanche of updates on a system that is mostly out of date, and that the result can't be guaranteed in such cases and a full system update is in order. But that is not the case here. What happens is that one library fails to install (also separately) as a result of 'no version information'. Ciao, -- FA Vor uns liegt ein weites Tal, die Sonne scheint - ein Glitzerstrahl.