Problem upgrading

[biddie]

Since last time I upgraded I lost KDE plasma, am now running XFCE,. I wanted to upgrade doing : sudo pacman -Syu. This is what I get:

: Synchronising package databases...
 core                                                                                169.2 KiB  1332 KiB/s 00:00 [####################################################################] 100%
 extra                                                                              1925.0 KiB  10.1 MiB/s 00:00 [####################################################################] 100%
 community                                                                             6.6 MiB  14.8 MiB/s 00:00 [####################################################################] 100%
 multilib                                                                            178.2 KiB  29.0 MiB/s 00:00 [####################################################################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
:: Replace lib32-libcanberra-pulse with multilib/lib32-libcanberra? [Y/n] Y
:: Replace libcanberra-pulse with extra/libcanberra? [Y/n] Y
:: Replace linux54-rt with community/linux-rt-lts-manjaro? [Y/n] Y
:: Replace linux54-rt-headers with community/linux-rt-lts-manjaro-headers? [Y/n] Y
:: Replace linux59-rt with community/linux-rt-manjaro? [Y/n] Y
:: Replace linux59-rt-headers with community/linux-rt-manjaro-headers? [Y/n] Y
:: Replace qca with extra/qca-qt5? [Y/n] Y
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: installing lib32-libcanberra (0.30+2+gc0620e4-4) breaks dependency 'lib32-libcanberra=0.30+2+gc0620e4-3' required by lib32-libcanberra-gstreamer
:: installing libcanberra (0.30+2+gc0620e4-4) breaks dependency 'libcanberra=0.30+2+gc0620e4-3' required by libcanberra-gstreamer

I am lost and need a step by step help please. Thank you

[bogdancovaciu]

@biddie

lib32-libcanberra

Please read the announcement wiki

@philm

You might be blocked updating when using pacman due to some libcanberra packages. Simply remove those packages: sudo pacman -Rdd lib32-libcanberra-pulse lib32-libcanberra-gstreamer libcanberra-pulse libcanberra-gstreamer. We recommend to use pamac anyway, which does this automatically: pamac update

[biddie]

OMG, it’s miraculous, it worked! Thank you so much. I was afraid of loosing things again.
Question: can one use: pamac udate each time for udating?

[stargazer]

@biddie

pamac udate each time for udating?

Yes.

pamac is Manjaro’s software package management program and it uses the pacman library (libalpm). There is a GUI (graphical user interface) and a CLI (command line interface). pamac has a man page.

It’s helpful to read the Stable Update Annoucement before updating, at least the first two entries. They are written by @philm and contain information about what is being installed and any issues and solutions.

[biddie]

Thank you. As I said I used to run KDE but after ‘loosing’ it, I run XFCE. After booting I get this message: The current theme cannot be loaded due to the errors below…

file,///usr/share/sdd-m/themes/breath2/Main.qml:26:1:plugin cannot be loaded for module ''org.kde.plasmacore'':cannot load library/usr/lib/qt/qml/org/ked/plasma/core/; _ZNI4KWindows Effects 11 slidewindowEP7QWindowsNS_17slide From LocationEi)

sorry, it was difficult to read the red text on blue background so there may be mistakes.
I am just an eternal user, very little knowlegde of the mechanics of Linux.
Grateful for your help