Pacman and dependencies

How does pacman handle dependencies? Eg. If you remove a package does it check for dependencies, then if other packages need them, then remove them?
Note - I havn't downloaded the iso yet and I'm still debating whether I should.
Thanks
Last edited by quaaack (2007-07-06 04:52:24)

from: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman
"To remove all of the packages dependencies which aren't used by any other installed package:
pacman -Rs package_name

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View and dependencies

Hello Every one.
I know i should not be doing duplicate posting but i think this section will have pointer.
Please look into this. What am i missing.
Re: View and dependencies
Thank you in advance.

Thank you for your reply.
I am sorry it is not getting me the result.
I think of two things, the table is on DBLINK and is there any think to do with dependecy_type='HARD'
.>ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf
1 CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW V_test
2 AS
3    SELECT   rpt_date,
4             client_id,
5             SUM (no_received) no_received
6        FROM xxx.daily_summery_rpt@ARCHIVE
7       WHERE client_id = '4398000000'
8         AND rpt_date BETWEEN trunc(sysdate-60)
9                          AND trunc(sysdate)
10    GROUP BY rpt_date,
11*            client_id
.>/
View created.
Elapsed: 00:00:03.07
.>SELECT *
2    FROM user_dependencies
3   WHERE TYPE = 'VIEW'
4     AND NAME = 'V_TEST';
no rows selected
Elapsed: 00:00:01.03
.>I am not sure what am i missing.

What pacman and or AUR warpper/helper do you use and why?

What pacman and or AUR warpper/helper do you use and why?
Last edited by jrussell (2013-04-07 12:40:07)

tomk wrote:
None, because I don't need one.
Just in case you meant to say "AUR wrapper/helper", I use cower.
I forgot AUR, thanks

Pacman and pacman -Syu

I was 100% sure I already posted this message but it is not here, I think I have done something terribly wrong with the submit button. :oops:
As everybody (should) know in case you do a pacman -Syu and a newer version of pacman is out, you should stop it, then upgrade only pacman and after do again pacman -Syu.
Could it be possible to have pacman that checks if there is a newer version available and in that case do only pacman upgrade?
This should save (especially newcomers) many problem.
I know that newcomers start to take advantage from a such feature only from 0.6 but somewere we have to start.
I think pacman is this case can have two operating mode:
1) pacman -Syu
2) pacman see a newer pacman version
3) pacman warn the user to do a pacman -S pacman before the pacman -Syu and stop. Eventually with the option to force the -Syu anyway. If somebody wants to mess up his/her system they should be free to do it
Another way can be
1) pacman -Syu
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I think this is a good idea. You should submit a feature request to the bugtracker.
Bobonov wrote:
I think pacman is this case can have two operating mode:
1) pacman -Syu
2) pacman see a newer pacman version
3) pacman warn the user to do a pacman -S pacman before the pacman -Syu and stop. Eventually with the option to force the -Syu anyway. If somebody wants to mess up his/her system they should be free to do it
Another way can be
1) pacman -Syu
2) pacman see a newer pacman version
3) pacman automatically update itself and after stop warning the user that pacman has been update and now he/she need to start pacman -Syu again
A third way would be:
1) pacman -Syu
2) See never pacman version
3) "Do you want to update pacman y/n"
4) If yes upgrade pacman
5) Continue with normal update.

Pacman and Targets

Just a suggestion for your consideration.
I like pacman and the way it evolves. Is it possible to change the way how the targets are displayed during system update?
I know that displating all the packages in a long column is not very transparent, however listing them in line is not good either.
Is it possible to list them in 2 or 3 columns in alphabetical order?
If there is more than 30 updates it is really hard to scan through this text and determin if updates are critical or not.
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Might not exactly be what you're looking for, but if you enable option VerbosePkgLists in your pacman.conf all packages will be listed with their names, versions and sizes, formatted as a table.

What is the difference between pacman and pacstrap?

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http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=506
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Installation order and dependencies of Essbase Products

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Trying to install nvidia and nvidia-utils via pacman and failed

I type
pacman -Sy nvidia nvidia-utils
i get:
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
:: util-linux and util-linux-ng are in conflict (linux32). Remove util-linux-ng? [y/N] Y
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: aufs2: requires kernel26<2.6.38
:: ndiswrapper: requires kernel26<2.6.38
:: tiacx: requires kernel26<=2.6.37
I cant seem to get it to install nvidia and consequentially lots of things are borked.
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Last edited by netw1z (2011-09-19 15:35:34)

Don't run 'pacman -Sy foo' - it may lead to breakage https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=89328
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Python-matplotlib and dependencies

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tpoisot wrote:
karol wrote:Write a PKGBUILD and specify the dependencies there. In Arch we're using pacman to handle package updating and dependency resolving, so it makes sense to use packages rather than e.g. bare xpi plugins.
Thanks for the info. But shouldn't there it be a mechanism to not install the arch version of a python pakage if the correct version has been installed using e.g. pip already?
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Kmldonkey and dependencies [Solved]

(first: sorry for my english)
ok i am old in GNU/Linux but new in Arch Linux, i want to install kmldonkey (pacman -S kmldonkey) but pacman want to install in my machine:
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Total Package Size: 47.06 MB
i don't want to install mldonkey because i don't want use mldonkey in my machine i have mldonkey in my server so i want use kmldonkey to connect with my server, i can install kmldonkey forcing to install kmldonkey only, without dependencies?.
Regards
insulae
PD i love pacman is the best package manager i tried!!! very good work guys!!
Last edited by insulae (2007-06-09 18:35:50)

hohoho i like ArchLinux every day a little more, i try with:
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PKGBUILD and dependencies

Hi,
I want to ask, if there is way, that pacman automatically installs resp. deinstalls all the needed packages I put to the depends-field?

Hm, exact problem ist following:
pacman -A ogmrip-0.10.0-1.pkg.tar.gz
loading package data... done.
error: unsatisfied dependencies:
ogmrip: requires ogmtools
ogmrip: requires vorbis-tools
ogmrip: requires intltool
ogmrip: requires gconf
ogmrip: requires mkvtoolnix
ogmrip: requires gocr
with PKGBUILD
# Contributor: Moo-Crumpus <do.not.spam.me AT web.de>
pkgname=ogmrip
pkgver=0.10.0
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Librairies and gtk2 interface for dvd ripping using mencoder"
url="http://ogmrip.sourceforge.net/"
license="GPL"
# Optional depedencies comes after pkgconfig. You can add enchant(for spellchacking in subtitiles), faac and libtheora
depends=('xorg' 'glib2' 'libxml2' 'libdvdread' 'mplayer' 'ogmtools' 'vorbis-tools' 'lame' 'intltool' 'pkgconfig' 'gtk2' 'gconf' 'libglade' 'dbus' 'hal' 'mkvtoolnix' 'gocr')
makedepends=('perlxml')
conflicts=()
replaces=()
backup=()
install=
#source=(http://mesh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ogmrip/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz)
source=(http://dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ogmrip/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz)
md5sums=('cef80b77b551a6e7accc1441b62c1b4a')
build() {
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cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
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make || return 1
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Had the same problem also with another package.

[Solved] Conflicting conflicts (and dependencies)

Attempting to update an AMD x86_64 system this morning:
07:55 Sun Dec 28
[root@arch64://~]# pacman -Su
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
:: bluez-libs conflicts with bluez. Remove bluez? [Y/n] y
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: gnokii: requires bluez>=4.1
07:55 Sun Dec 28
[root@arch64://~]# pacman -Su
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
:: bluez-libs conflicts with bluez. Remove bluez? [Y/n] n
error: unresolvable package conflicts detected
error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
:: bluez-libs: conflicts with bluez
I run LxDE and KDE3 (brand new install).
I'm dead in the water, of course. My system's running fine, but pacman updates are borked here ATM.
Last edited by grndrush (2008-12-28 14:34:21)

I did a pacman -Syy *right before* the bash display above. Trying to strive for brevity.
I'm very current - the only packages I *expected* to be upgraded were the kernel and klibc-udev. I was current otherwise as of 6 AM this morning. No idea where this is coming from.
FWIW, I use KDE3 as my primary D/E. It was installed after LXDE, but I didn't remove LXDE.
gnokii is required by kde3-kdepim, so we're talking a good 100 MB of disk trashing. If I have to remove and reinstall both (although the latter IS optional, I guess...).

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