On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:55:22PM +0100, Alexandre Ferrando wrote: > On 16 February 2012 22:52, Fons Adriaensen <fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > 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... > > That's what you got wrong. pacman -S foo only installs deps, does NOT > update them if they are already in the system. Not even if 'foo' requires a new version of a dependency ?? AFAIK pacman has updated dependencies - if required - every time I used it. It would quite useless if it didn't. But again: the problem is that one library *fails to install*, even if the package database is up to date, and even if I try to install it explicitly. Ciao, -- FA Vor uns liegt ein weites Tal, die Sonne scheint - ein Glitzerstrahl.
