Aug 10, 2024 20:18:48 David C. Rankin <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxx>: > Devs, > > I was surprised trying to install a python-tqdm package to get the error: > > (2/2) checking for file conflicts [######################################] 100% > error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) > python-tqdm: /usr/bin/tqdm exists in filesystem > Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. > > The package is there: > > $ l /usr/bin/tqdm > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 206 Jul 8 2021 /usr/bin/tqdm > > I check with pacman to find the owning package -- and there is none: > > $ pacman -Qo /usr/bin/tqdm > error: No package owns /usr/bin/tqdm > > How can I check how it got there and what may depend on it? I don't install stray packages, and especially not to /usr/bin, so this is a surprise. I don't want to just willy-nilly remove it either and have something unknown break. > > Best course of action? > > -- > David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. You can probably just delete it and any other file that conflicts for this. It was likely installed through `pip install -g` which is why pacman isn't tracking it or what package it's from, if you're replacing it with python-tqdm from the pacman repository, whatever installed it through pip shouldn't be able to tell the difference. -- Kusoneko GPG: https://kusoneko.moe/gpg.txt https://kusoneko.moe
