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FS#9545 - Can't upgrade nvidia-utils

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Simon Morgan (sjmorgan) - Tuesday, 12 February 2008, 15:06 GMT
Last edited by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Tuesday, 12 February 2008, 15:13 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08-2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

error: could not prepare transaction
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA_dynamic.so.1 exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Roman Kyrylych (Romashka)
Tuesday, 12 February 2008, 15:13 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  this is not a bug in current package, but in previous versions
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Tuesday, 12 February 2008, 15:13 GMT
This is actually a bug in previous versions of nvidia-utils packages, where the /usr/lib/libXvMCNVIDIA_dynamic.so.1 symlink was not part of a package and was created by ldconfig later after installing.
The solution is to just use -Su --force

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