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FS#60702 - [apper] conflicting files with gnome-software

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Andy Dormire (adormire) - Monday, 05 November 2018, 15:02 GMT
Last edited by Antonio Rojas (arojas) - Monday, 05 November 2018, 20:56 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Antonio Rojas (arojas)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 5.1.1
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Summary and Info:

I've been testing GUIs for Pacman and encountered an issue with not being able to install Apper. I'm doing this from command line.

[root@REDACTED pacman.d]# pacman -S apper
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (5) kcmutils-5.51.0-1 kdeclarative-5.51.0-1 kpackage-5.51.0-1 packagekit-qt5-1.0.1-1
apper-1.0.0-1

Total Installed Size: 8.87 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
(5/5) checking keys in keyring [################################] 100%
(5/5) checking package integrity [################################] 100%
(5/5) loading package files [################################] 100%
(5/5) checking for file conflicts [################################] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
apper: /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.PackageKit.service exists in filesystem (owned by gnome-software)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
[root@REDACTED pacman.d]# pacman -Qo /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.PackageKit.service
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.PackageKit.service is owned by gnome-software 3.30.5-1


Following the instructions here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman#Repositories_and_mirrors, I'm reporting the bug as requested.


Steps to Reproduce:

1. Install GNOME with Pacman
2. Install gnome-software and gnome-packagekit
3. Attempt to install Apper with Pacman
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Closed by  Antonio Rojas (arojas)
Monday, 05 November 2018, 20:56 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  apper 1.0.0-2
Comment by Eli Schwartz (eschwartz) - Monday, 05 November 2018, 15:09 GMT
  • Field changed: Attached to Project (Pacman → Community Packages)
  • Field changed: Summary (Unable to Install Apper: PackageKit Owned by GNOME → [apper] conflicting files with gnome-software)
Well, this is not exactly a bug in the pacman program itself... it's an issue with the packages in question, which provide different, incompatible files in the same file location.

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