[SOLVED] Pacman wont upgrade any packages

Question

EDIT: I was able to solve my problem by pacman -R yaourt package-query pacman-color, I was then able to update pacman. Since I like yaourt and wanted to keep it I follow the instructions on their page (http://archlinux.fr/yaourt-en#get_it). I added their repo to my /etc/pacman.conf and then installed yaourt from pacman and now everything works again like it should.
When I try to upgrade packages I get the following errors:
[jason@barnaby ~]$ sudo pacman -Su
:: The following packages should be upgraded first :
pacman
:: Do you want to cancel the current operation
:: and upgrade these packages now? [Y/n] Y
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: package-query: requires pacman<3.6
:: pacman-color: requires pacman<3.6
[jason@barnaby ~]$ sudo pacman -Su
:: The following packages should be upgraded first :
pacman
:: Do you want to cancel the current operation
:: and upgrade these packages now? [Y/n] n
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: package-query: requires pacman<3.6
:: pacman-color: requires pacman<3.6
[jason@barnaby ~]$
Last edited by slughappy1 (2012-01-17 18:07:42)

Answer 1

I tried to uninstall packagekit and failed, then I tried to install packagekit-git and that failed too.
[jason@barnaby ~]$ sudo pacman -R packagekit
Password:
error: 'packagekit': target not found
[jason@barnaby ~]$ yaourt -S packagekit-git
==> Downloading packagekit-git PKGBUILD from AUR...
x ChangeLog
x PKGBUILD
Comment by: onestep_ua on Thu, 16 Sep 2010 23:56:56 +0000
Updated this to follow the change of GIT server.
Comment by: nxarmada on Tue, 01 Feb 2011 06:01:55 +0000
== Installing missing dependencies...
error: 'gir-repository=0.6.6': could not find or read package
== ERROR: 'pacman' failed to install missing dependencies.
I assume this should be git-repository=0.6.6 Also I can find this package on Pacman or AUR
Comment by: onestep_ua on Tue, 01 Feb 2011 09:27:06 +0000
This is obsolete dependency connected with gobject-introspection support. I think it can be removed without any problems. :)
Comment by: nxarmada on Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:40:37 +0000
So I am trying to compile but I get this....any ideas?
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
make[4]: *** [enums.py] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/ryan/Downloads/AUR/packagekit/src/packagekit-build/lib/python/packagekit'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/ryan/Downloads/AUR/packagekit/src/packagekit-build/lib/python'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ryan/Downloads/AUR/packagekit/src/packagekit-build/lib'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ryan/Downloads/AUR/packagekit/src/packagekit-build'
make: *** [all] Error 2
Aborting...
Comment by: bash on Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:57:10 +0000
these lines are needed before ./autogen.sh
sed -i -e s|#![ ]*/usr/bin/python$|#!/usr/bin/python2| \
-e s|#![ ]*/usr/bin/env python$|#!/usr/bin/env python2| \
$(find . -name '*.py')
Comment by: bash on Tue, 29 Mar 2011 01:14:30 +0000
also ./autogen.sh must be replaced with:
PYTHON=/usr/bin/python2 ./autogen.sh
First Submitted: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:33:58 +0000
packagekit-git 20100917-1
( Unsupported package: Potentially dangerous ! )
==> Edit PKGBUILD ? [Y/n] ("A" to abort)
==> ------------------------------------
==> n
==> packagekit-git dependencies:
- dbus-glib>=0.86 (already installed)
- polkit>=0.96 (already installed)
- networkmanager>=0.8.1 (already installed)
- pacman>=3.4.1 (already installed)
- python>=2.6.5 (already installed)
- sqlite3 (already installed)
- git (already installed)
- gnome-common (already installed)
- intltool (already installed)
- pm-utils (already installed)
- libtar (package found)
- gir-repository>=0.6.6 (building from AUR)
- pacman-glib>=3.4.0 (building from AUR)
==> Continue building packagekit-git ? [Y/n]
==> ----------------------------------------
==>
==> Building and installing package
==> Install or build missing dependencies for packagekit-git:
:: The following packages should be upgraded first :
pacman
:: Do you want to cancel the current operation
:: and upgrade these packages now? [Y/n] Y
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: package-query: requires pacman<3.6
:: pacman-color: requires pacman<3.6
==> Restart building packagekit-git ? [y/N]
==> ---------------------------------------