StableUpdate 2021-11-19: libzim6 and libzim are in conflict

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As already discussed here, I get the conflict libzim6 ./. libzim and actualized the mirrors:
sudo pacman-mirrors --fasttrack && sudo pacman -Syyu

But in difference to the above topic, I already have libzim 7

$ pamac list
libzim                                    7.0.0-1                     community  585,2 kB

Nevertheless, I get this error and can’t update:

Warning: manjaro-hello: Local Version (0.6.7-2) ist newer than extra (0.6.6-9)
...
Error: 
:: libzim6 und libzim are in conflict.
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This means you can’t have both installed at the same time.
Check what packages require any of those, and probably uninstall those you don’t need.

pacman -Qi libzim libzim6
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Thank you @maycne.sonahoz,
libzim is used by kiwix*. Actually, libzim6 is not installed here (as far as I can see)

As mentioned in my first post, I already did
sudo pacman-mirrors --fasttrack && sudo pacman -Syyuu

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kiwix-lib specifically has libzim6 as a dependency.

https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/kiwix-lib/

And zim-tools is the only package that require libzim 7.0.

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:point_up:

As shown by

pacman -Siip libzim libzim6
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Thank you
Strange for me: pamac-manager says for kiwix-lib: depends on libzim >= 6.3.0
What can I do? I don’t like the idea to uninstall kiwix!

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Thanks @ admdb: OK, tried again with your version:
sudo pacman-mirrors --fasttrack && sudo pacman -Syyuu
Same result

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The extra u simply allows downgrades … such as if you wanted to return from Unstable Branch to Stable branch, and sync with its current ‘older’ packages.
In any case where there is not a lesser version being provided in the repos, the extra u does nothing.

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Remove zim-tools?

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Thanks @maycne.sonahoz, zim-tools actually is not installed here.

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Then my guess is kiwix-lib switched its dependency from libzim to libzim6, so your system wants to both update libzim and install libzim6.

A solution would be to explicitly update kiwix-lib and its (new) dependency. It should then ask to replace libzim by libzim6.

sudo pacman -S kiwix-lib libzim6
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Thank you @maycne.sonahoz,
I fired:

$ sudo pacman -S kiwix-lib libzim6
Searching for conflicts …
:: libzim6 and libzim are in Conflikt. remove libzim? [j/N] j
Packages (3) libzim-6.3.2-1 [Removal]  kiwix-lib-9.4.1-5  libzim6-6.3.2-2

After that:
$ pamac update -a
and it’s running …
… and worked fine. System is actualized, kiwix works fine. Thanks again @maycne.sonahoz

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