Removeing kde-meta packages

Hi!
On KDE 4.3, when I try to remove an unwanted KDE app (ie KsCD), it tells me that i need to remove the corresponding kde-meta package as well (ie kde-meta-kdemultimedia). cool. however, when i do this, it makes all of the other apps with the kdemultimedia group orphans - i.e. they show up in pacman -Qdtq. is there any way to stop this from happening?

I'd say just remove the meta-packages and reinstall (with --asexplicit) those that you want to keep and which show up in -Qtd.

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Hello. Today i decided to upgrade my kde 4.2.4 to 4.3. After i execute:
pacman -S kdeadmin kdeartwork kdebase kdeplasma-addons
there is some warnings in output:
Warning: provider package was selected (kde-meta-kdeplasma-addons provides kdeplasma-addons)
I don't want to install any kde-meta package. But this is no problem. I can delete them after.
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error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
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How to resolve that? Or maybe i must install manually all packages in kdeplasma-addons group?
P.S. Sorry for my english.
Last edited by gen1s (2009-08-04 12:15:58)

@Pierre
I just change my mirror to : Server = ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/$repo/os/x86_64
and still can't upgrade.
error: could not prepare transaction
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
kdeplasma-addons-applets-bball: /usr/lib/kde4/plasma_applet_bball.so exists in filesystem
kdeplasma-addons-applets-bball: /usr/share/apps/bball/bball.svgz exists in filesystem
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kdeplasma-addons-applets-bball: /usr/share/apps/bball/football.svgz exists in filesystem
Should i delete all my KDE installed packages, and try to install everything again with sudo pacman -Sy kde ?
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[SOLVED] Pacman failed retrieving file 'core.db' after removing KDE

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Last edited by Greenstuff (2015-02-08 20:49:24)

Sorry, will do!
The debug printed a lot of the first errors, so I cut them. This is what pacman --Syu --debug show:
debug: adding new server URL to database 'multilib': [url]http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/archlinux/multilib/os/x86_64[/url]
debug: adding new server URL to database 'multilib': [url]http://ftp.ds.hj.se/pub/os/linux/archlinux/multilib/os/x86_64[/url]
debug: adding new server URL to database 'multilib': [url]http://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/archlinux/multilib/os/x86_64[/url]
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debug: adding new server URL to database 'multilib': [url]http://mirror.lnx.sk/pub/linux/archlinux/multilib/os/x86_64[/url]
debug: adding new server URL to database 'multilib': [url]http://mirrors.st.uz/archlinux/multilib/os/x86_64[/url]
debug: adding new server URL to database 'multilib': [url]http://mirrors.mithril.org.ua/linux/archlinux/multilib/os/x86_64[/url]
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debug: adding new server URL to database 'multilib': [url]http://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/linux/archlinux/multilib/os/x86_64[/url]
debug: adding new server URL to database 'multilib': [url]http://artfiles.org/archlinux.org/multilib/os/x86_64[/url]
debug: adding new server URL to database 'multilib': [url]http://repo.ukdw.ac.id/archlinux/multilib/os/x86_64[/url]
debug: adding new server URL to database 'multilib': [url]http://linux.cs.nctu.edu.tw/archlinux/multilib/os/x86_64[/url]
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debug: using time condition: 1422991262
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Ok, so I did indeed disable ipv6 as I promised, but turns out I put in the GRUB kernel line "ipv6.disable_ipv6=1". Upon re-reading the wiki, turns out this means ipv6 is disabled but tunnels with ipv6 may be opened by programs. I changed to "ipv6.disable=1" and pacman updates away! I hope others will find this usefull. Be careful!
Last edited by Greenstuff (2015-02-08 20:52:45)

[SOLVED] Removing all uneeded packages, GNOME Issues

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Last edited by novafluxx (2009-10-24 21:20:44)

Pierre wrote:1) You should have use pacman -Rcsn gnome
2) You can removed unneeded packages by pacman -Rcsn `pacman -Qqdt`
Thank you for the fast reply, I will try to remember that!
I've tried running what you suggested, but it doesn't seem to be working...
pacman -Rcsn 'pacman -Qqdt"
says its not found in the local db
Mefju wrote:Just use pacman -Rs $(pacman -Qqdt) as root
This will do it! I get it, make it use the string output of pacman -Qqdt as the input for pacman -Rcsn ?
Last edited by novafluxx (2009-10-24 21:10:42)

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