I have just moved to manjaro and would like to have the ability to mostly use i3 but ‘pop’ into gnome every now and again
so I installed i3 manjaro and have it setup and thought I could just pacman -S gnome and then add the theming bits
unfortunately it tells me that it cannot due to a conflict
warning: removing ‘gdm’ from target list because it conflicts with ‘gdm-dev’
error: unresolvable package conflicts detected
error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
:: gdm-dev and libgdm-dev are in conflict
I’ve only run i3 alongside xfce, but I would recommend installing i3 on top of another DE, since i3 is ‘just’ a window manager and less complex than the gnome environment (and doesn’t have gdm as a dependency).
thanks, I did try that but found the config if i3 more difficult than thought, specifically around uninstalled tools, e.g function/media keys but if you have any advice I might give that another go
Hi, I am not sure how that can be as it was a fresh install of i3 and using the Qi option shows me that I do not have either, or any gdm packages installed, could you give me a suggestion on how to troubleshoot further please?
You could simply make a backup of your current ~/.i3/config, and use that after manually installing i3’s componants and for referencing which componants (e.g. “blurlock”). You will want to install i3-gaps instead of i3-wm (it’s basically the same, but i3-gaps has additional features/is being used for the community edition).
If you decide to stick with the current install, check which apps depend on ‘libgdm-dev’: pactree -r libgdm-dev
in order to give you an idea how to proceed…
thanks again (and I forgot to say thank you for the warm welcome )
I am going to copy the config and start again as it would not be a bad learning opportunity, its just that the i3 spin is so good (the Fn keys especially) but it all must be possible!
I did also try the pactree command but the package is not installed so it just returned an error
thanks, no problem, I am new to manjaro but have been using linux for a while, and it was a bit odd
I did a fresh install, added a few packages and then thought I can simply add gnome now that I have i3 where I want it but
I really do light i3 but did take the shortcut so this probably serves me right, I will start with gnome as you said and then see how long it takes me to get back here!
Right, but the issue is what does the OP to trigger the gdm-dev dep error ? By no means sudo pacman -S gnome
and even selecting all from that group will NOT render that error. Just made a test with an i3 install.
And who is going to answer them ?
This is the only warning you should have got:
warning: removing 'nautilus' from target list because it conflicts with 'nautilus-typeahead'
warning: removing 'libnautilus-extension' from target list because it conflicts with 'libnautilus-extension-typeahead'
I am currently having the same problem. Although, as of now I am on KDE, but wanted to try out gnome.
I get same error and OP and I don’t have gdm-dev or libgdm-dev.
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