Can't update anything, "Replace xxxxx with extra/xxxx5"

[hyjt8]

A while since I used PC, Try to update:

I get this on every, or almost every single application that wan’t update:

:: Replace appstream-qt with extra/appstream-qt5? [Y/n]

If I use CLI after I say Yes on every I get this error:

error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing kpeople breaks dependency ‘kpeople’ required by kpeoplevcard
:: removing kcontacts breaks dependency ‘kcontacts’ required by kpeoplevcard

If I say yes to all except kpeople and kcontacts, kpeople get conflict.

:: kpeople5 and kpeople are in conflict. Remove kpeople? [y/N]
error: unresolvable package conflicts detected
error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
:: kpeople5 and kpeople are in conflict (kpeople<5.111)

same with sudo pacman -Syu and sudo pacman -Syyu

With GUI “Add/Remove Software” I get the same error, even thouch kcontact and kpeople doesn’t show up there as something to be installed.
If I remove all apps that start with ‘k’ so they get excluded in the install I get alot of these type of errors, all start with k:

• removing ki18n breaks dependency ‘ki18n’ required by kdecoration

[cscs]

@hyjt8

:: Replace appstream-qt with extra/appstream-qt5? [Y/n]

Expected.
You must confirm. (y)

For the rest … please see any update announcement beginning in ~november.

They are compiled on the latest so heres that:

[Stable Update] 2023-12-15 - Kernels, Blender, Thunderbird, Xorg-Server, Xwayland, Warzone2100

Known issues and solutions This is a wiki post; please edit as necessary. Please, consider subscribing to the Stable Updates Announcements RSS feed Please RTFT (Read This Fine Thread) first before reporting the same issues over and over again! 2023-12-15 2023-12-10

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[philm]

You can update with this: sudo pacman -Syuu. This will downgrade kpeoplevcard and updates everything else.

[hyjt8]

Thanks. Seems to not help.

pacman -Sy jdk-openjdk && pacman -Su give this error (after Y all packages):

error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing kpeople breaks dependency 'kpeople' required by kpeoplevcard
:: removing kcontacts breaks dependency 'kcontacts' required by kpeoplevcard

sudo pacman -Syu kpeoplevcard and sudo pacman -Syuu give this error (after Y all packages):

error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
glibc: /usr/lib/locale/C.utf8/LC_ADDRESS exists in filesystem
glibc: /usr/lib/locale/C.utf8/LC_COLLATE exists in filesystem
glibc: /usr/lib/locale/C.utf8/LC_CTYPE exists in filesystem
glibc: /usr/lib/locale/C.utf8/LC_IDENTIFICATION exists in filesystem
glibc: /usr/lib/locale/C.utf8/LC_MEASUREMENT exists in filesystem
glibc: /usr/lib/locale/C.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/SYS_LC_MESSAGES exists in filesystem
glibc: /usr/lib/locale/C.utf8/LC_MONETARY exists in filesystem
glibc: /usr/lib/locale/C.utf8/LC_NAME exists in filesystem
glibc: /usr/lib/locale/C.utf8/LC_NUMERIC exists in filesystem
glibc: /usr/lib/locale/C.utf8/LC_PAPER exists in filesystem
glibc: /usr/lib/locale/C.utf8/LC_TELEPHONE exists in filesystem
glibc: /usr/lib/locale/C.utf8/LC_TIME exists in filesystem
glibc-locales: /usr/lib/locale/aa_DJ.utf8/LC_ADDRESS exists in filesystem
[...]
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

The […] is a thousand rows or so related to different languages for utf8.

edit: Can I just manually delete those files?

[zbe]

@cscs provided you with link to stable update announcements. It’s all there, you just have to read it.

glibc-locales update requires manual intervention

If you had the old glibc-locales package from the extra repo installed, the update to the new core package will need manual intervention:

sudo pacman -Syu glibc-locales --overwrite /usr/lib/locale/\*/\*

[Wollie]

@hyjt8

glibc: /usr/lib/locale/C.utf8/LC_ADDRESS exists in filesystem

You could solve it probably by

sudo pacman -Syuu glibc-locales --overwrite /usr/lib/locale/\*/\*

Second u matters.

Maybe you have to add jdk-openjdk to the packages to be updated, explicitely.

[hyjt8]

Yes, I read on the link cscs posted and try stuff from there.

glibc is blocked by kpeoplevcard and kpeoplevcard is blocked by glibc

 sudo pacman -Syuu glibc-locales --overwrite /usr/lib/locale/\*/\*
[...]
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing kpeople breaks dependency 'kpeople' required by kpeoplevcard
:: removing kcontacts breaks dependency 'kcontacts' required by kpeoplevcard

sudo pacman -Syuu 
[...]
glibc-locales: /usr/lib/locale/aa_DJ.utf8/LC_ADDRESS exists in filesystem
[...]
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

Mixing both commands into one seems to work though.

 sudo pacman -Syuu glibc-locales --overwrite /usr/lib/locale/\*/\*

edit: Yes, now it’s done and it worked. The extra ‘u’ helped.

Thanks all for the help!

[Wollie]

OK, nice to hear it’s working.