Hi everybody,
I am a long time user of manjaro KDE. The latest install gave me the error “plasma-desktop-primex and plasma-desktop are in conflict”
I have searched for the “plasma-desktop-primex” but I couldn’t find a satisfactory explanation. Does anybody know what is it? and how can I solve the issue?
Best
Volk
I had the same problem, tried to upgrade the system again and it gave me an option to replace plasma-desktop with primex. That did it for me. I have no idea what primex is though.
plasma-desktop-primex seems to be the regular plasma desktop package, just with a fingerprint support patch:
Thanks guys!
I approved the replacement but it still gave me the conflict error and stopped update. Then I removed the plasma-desktop so I could continue to update
I reply to ‘NO’ at
::Replace knetattach with extra/plasma-desktop-primex? [Y/n]
Did I do a wrong choice?
You can reply to it with yes so it will update all the packages.
As @Strit said it is just the same plasma-desktop with fingerprint login support.
Ok, @spikerguy
What is the ‘fingerprint login support’?
And when I replied YES, pacman warned me that pacman was in conflict with primex version, so I replied NO.
Users can not login with fingerprint scanning instead of typing the password. 
This is new that is the reason it is in a separate pkg for now.
Ah, ok. 
At the moment, I don’t need it.
But now, what do you suggest to me? I leave things as they are?
Well you can say yes for now and nothing will change.
I need some help here. I’m trying to install python-validity, which apparently is the only way to get my Thinkpad’s fingerprint reader (06cb:009a Synaptics, Inc. Metallica MIS Touch Fingerprint Reader) to work with Manjaro. Unfortunately, python-validity wants to install fprintd-clients, which conflicts with fprintd. Replacing fprintd with fprintd-clients doesnt work because fprintd is required by “plasma-desktop-primex”.
Any chance you could point me in the right direction?
Seems I’ve to fix something here …
Regarding knetattach.
fprintd-clients is an AUR package and the provides=() is wrong. Point the maintainer to it to provide fprintd with his package
Since I’m relatively clueless, I’m not sure what exactly I’m supposed to tell the maintainer. I also don’t know whether the AUR guys even care about Manjaro related problems enough to fix problems as long as they don’t affect Arch? Anyways, if you let me know exactly what I’m supposed to propose, I’ll happily do so.
So I managed to install the printd-clients package by editing the build file and adding fprintd to the provides=() field. I also asked the maintainer to do the same in his build file. Hope that’s what you meant. After that, python-validity could be installed.