Not able to install some QT-dependant packages after upgrading to QT5

Question

I ran an updated today, it was a major update, there was a lot of stuff that I got prompted to replace, I said yes of course. One of those was qt, which was a dependancy to some of my apps, like Skype and edb-debugger. So I just, removed those apps, and proceeded with the update, it went alright. After that, I wanted to reinstall those two apps:
resolving dependencies...
warning: cannot resolve "lib32-qt", a dependency of "skype"
:: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies:
skype
Do you want to skip the above package for this upgrade? [y/N]
if I give that a yes:
looking for inter-conflicts...
there is nothing to do
No:
error: failed to prepare transaction (unexpected error)
For edb, from yaourt:
error: target not found: qt>=4.5
It states that it wants a version of qt which is higher than 4.5 right? I already have qt5! so what's up?
I looked into my /var/cache/pacman/pkg for qt so that I could downgrade, I didn't find that 'literal' package, I found some qt-related stuff.
sudo pacman -U qt-4.8.4-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
loading packages...
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
:: qt and qt4 are in conflict. Remove qt4? [y/N] y
:: qt and qt5-base are in conflict. Remove qt5-base? [y/N] y
:: qt and qt5-declarative are in conflict. Remove qt5-declarative? [y/N] y
:: qt and qt5-imageformats are in conflict. Remove qt5-imageformats? [y/N] y
:: qt and qt5-multimedia are in conflict. Remove qt5-multimedia? [y/N] y
:: qt and qt5-quick1 are in conflict. Remove qt5-quick1? [y/N] y
:: qt and qt5-script are in conflict. Remove qt5-script? [y/N] y
:: qt and qt5-svg are in conflict. Remove qt5-svg? [y/N] y
:: qt and qt5-tools are in conflict. Remove qt5-tools? [y/N] y
:: qt and qt5-translations are in conflict. Remove qt5-translations? [y/N] y
:: qt and qt5-xmlpatterns are in conflict. Remove qt5-xmlpatterns? [y/N] y
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: attica: requires qt4
:: grantlee: requires qt4
:: lib32-qt4: requires qt4
:: libdbusmenu-qt: requires qt4
:: libqzeitgeist: requires qt4
:: phonon: requires qt4
:: polkit-qt: requires qt4
:: poppler-qt: requires qt4
:: prison: requires qt4
:: q4wine: requires qt4
:: qca: requires qt4
:: qimageblitz: requires qt4
:: qjson: requires qt4
:: qt5-graphicaleffects: requires qt5-declarative
:: qt5-jsbackend: requires qt5-base
:: qt5-webkit: requires qt5-declarative
:: qtwebkit: requires qt4
:: soprano: requires qt4
:: strigi: requires qt4
:: unetbootin: requires qt4
:: vlc: requires qt4
:: winestuff: requires qt4
Are you freckin kiddin me? I'm NOT gonna go over this again, hell no!
I downloaded skype from its site, did a pacman -U on it:
error: missing package metadata in skype-4.1.0.20.tar.bz2
error: 'skype-4.1.0.20.tar.bz2': invalid or corrupted package
How can I get around this, install Skype and the stuff that I want? anyhelp please?
Thanks!
Last edited by VeXe (2013-03-01 11:36:00)

Answer 1

VeXe wrote:resolving dependencies...
warning: cannot resolve "lib32-qt", a dependency of "skype"
:: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies:
skype
Do you want to skip the above package for this upgrade? [y/N]
Here you are trying to install skype from multilib, right? Then your mirror is not fully up to date or you need another -Sy. skype in the repos has been updated to depend on (lib32-)qt4 instead of (lib32-)qt.
edb-debugger in AUR hasn't caught up with this change, you should at least edit the PGKBUILD, changing qt in debs to qt4.
You can't just downgrade qt to the 4.x branch if you have apps depending on the qt5-* packages.