Nodejs conflict during update

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Hi, I have an error during update:

    ~  sudo pacman -Syyu                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            1 ✘  at 13:29:06  
[sudo] hasło użytkownika swistak: 
:: Synchronizowanie baz danych z pakietami…
 core                                                                                                                                                                                                     138,5 KiB   420 KiB/s 00:00 [#################################################################################################################################################] 100%
 extra                                                                                                                                                                                                      8,1 MiB  30,4 MiB/s 00:00 [#################################################################################################################################################] 100%
 community                                                                                                                                                                                                 29,0   B   725   B/s 00:00 [#################################################################################################################################################] 100%
 multilib                                                                                                                                                                                                 143,0 KiB  2,33 MiB/s 00:00 [#################################################################################################################################################] 100%
:: Rozpoczynanie pełnej aktualizacji systemu…
:: Zastąpić gnome-latex przez extra/enter-tex? [T/n] 
:: Zastąpić python-nautilus przez extra/nautilus-python? [T/n] 
:: Zastąpić tracker3 przez extra/tinysparql? [T/n] 
:: Zastąpić tracker3-miners przez extra/localsearch? [T/n] 
rozwiązywanie zależności…
szukanie sprzecznych pakietów...
błąd:  odkryto nierozwiązywalne konflikty pakietów
błąd:  nie udało się przygotować transakcji (konfliktujące zależności)
:: nodejs-lts-hydrogen-18.20.5-1 and nodejs-lts-iron-20.18.0-1 are in conflict

how to solve this?

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This will output the command in English:

LC_ALL=C sudo pacman -Syu

Please only use one (1) y when performing an update.

However, this seems to be a conflict between nodejs versions; you might try:

sudo pacman -Rns nodejs-lts-hydrogen

and then trying the update again.

Note that I have moved this to a new topic for you in case further assistance is needed.

Regards.

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This repository has been dropped many, many, many months ago. Which suggests you’ve been neglecting your .pacnew files, which means you’ve been a naughty boy!

See below about handling your .pacnew files. I do not know what the issue is, but this might even resolve or help resolve it.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman/Pacnew_and_Pacsave#.pacnew

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It can’t be removed like that as something installed depends on some version of nodejs. Only one version be installed at a time. All three provide it:

extra/nodejs 23.3.0-1
    Evented I/O for V8 javascript
extra/nodejs-lts-hydrogen 18.20.5-1
    Evented I/O for V8 javascript (LTS release: Hydrogen)
extra/nodejs-lts-iron 20.18.1-1
    Evented I/O for V8 javascript (LTS release: Iron)

I wouldn’t be surprised if it was an AUR package that is causing the conflict.

@pawel What depends on it?

pacman -Qi nodejs | grep 'Required By\|Optional For'
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I don’t remember to do that, to mess in repo pacnew files or smth. How can fix it?

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I gave you two links on how to do it.

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    ~  LC_ALL=C sudo pacman -Qi nodejs | grep 'Required By\|Optional For'                                              1|1 ✘  at 09:48:35  
Required By     : alacritty-themes  grunt-cli  node-gyp  nodejs-nativefier  nodejs-nopt  npm  semver  tabby-bin  web-ext  yarn
Optional For    : None
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To resolve the conflict you need to remove either:
nodejs-lts-hydrogen
or
nodejs-lts-iron

Try removing the former - as @soundofthunder said.

nodejs-nativefier is an AUR package
alacritty-themes is an AUR package
tabby-bin is an AUR package

If one nodejs-lts-xyz version can’t be removed because one or all of the above depend on it,
remove those - and then nodejs-lts-hydrogen as well.

You have got this the wrong way around - you need to “mess with it”.

You need to merge these .pacnew files - incorporate the changes into the corresponding configuration files.
It’s something you did not do - but need to.