Failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)

[Chronos]

after checking for file conflicts, I get this error:

(924/924) checking for file conflicts                                                                                [----------------------------------------------------------------------] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
dunst: /usr/bin/dunstify exists in filesystem (owned by dunstify)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

Is there a way to fix this?

[Alfy]

please see this post from teh update thread

[Stable Update] 2020-08-28 - Kernels, Systemd, PAM, PAMBASE, KDE-git, Deepin, Pamac, Nvidia 450.66, LibreOffice 7.0

remover or rename dunstify. Or use --overwrite /usr/bin/dunstify when you update.

[cscs]

Or just the general howto…

Update or package installation returns “Failed to commit transaction (conflicting files); FILENAME exists in filesystem”

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