"pcaman -Syu" solved the problem On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 8:14 PM, Doug Newgard <scimmia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2014-07-31 09:37, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > >> On Thursday 31 Jul 2014 09:07:00 Doug Newgard wrote: >> >>> > Your database is probably out of date. Try: >>> > >>> > # pacman -Syy >>> > >>> > and try again. >>> > >>> > Paul >>> >>> No, do not do -Syy, do -Syu or -Syyu. -Syy just leads to problems. >>> >> >> It *just* leads to problems? Mmm; it *may* lead to problems, yes. >> Experience of what >> happens in practice tells me that it will almost certainly be fine and >> will avoid a potentially long >> and unwanted system update in the middle of work. >> >> But yes, technically, it's better to do -Syu so that you're not >> potentially installing a package >> that was built against another package that you have have an >> out-of-date version of, possibly >> leading to the new package segfaulting or failing to launch. >> >> Paul >> > > If you do it habitually, yes, you WILL run into problems eventually. >
