Removing wxgtk-common breaks dependency required by wxgtk2

[zbe]

@winnie

I removed only wxgtk2, and the updates installed without issue.

But did you have to remove it then? Was there an error?

[SvetoslavB]

Thank you!

[winnie]

@zbe

But did you have to remove it then?

Yes, I had to remove it. Otherwise, the system update would abort with the same error in the OP’s screenshot. For some reason, wxgtk2 was not automatically removed. Once I manually removed it, everything continued like normal.

I find it odd, since not a single installed package on my system had wxgtk2 as a dependency. (Not even any of my installed AUR PKGBUILDs required it.)

[winnie]

@Yochanan

Nothing in the repos depends on wxgtk2 anymore, so whatever depends on it was manually installed by you from the AUR which is your responsibility to manage.

I believe there’s one extra “detail” in addition to this. Of my three Manjaro installations, two of them have the same packages installed via the AUR. However, only one of them had this issue with wxgtk2.

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Here’s what I think might have occurred with myself and others:

In the past, there might have been an AUR PKGBUILD with wxgtk2 as a dependency. Installing the (mystery) package from the AUR naturally pulled in wxgtk2 from the repositories.

Over time, this particular software from the AUR no longer required wxgtk2, yet even after several updates, wxgtk2 was never removed automatically. It just remained installed in the system all alone, not required by anything else.

Upon trying to determine which package is using wxgtk2 as a dependency, it’s revealed that no packages require it. (Which adds to the confusions above.) Even still, trying to update via Pamac will abort unless there is manual intervention to remove wxgtk2.

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The difference between my two systems (one with this “issue” and the other without this issue) could be due to the fact that I initially installed packages from the AUR at a later date on the computer without wxgtk2. Hence, wxgtk2 was never pulled into this computer.

In fact, on the “behaving” system, my pacman history shows zero entries for wxgtk2, from the day I installed Manjaro all the way up until today.

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UPDATE: I found the culprit in my situation. It was the package amule, which is on the official Arch Linux repositories, but in September 2021 they later switched its dependency from wxgtk2 to wxgtk3.

Post with further explanation: Recent stable updates and wxgtk2: what happened? - #10 by winnie

[Jocix]

Hmm, WoeUSB has a wxgtk2 dependency.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/woeusbgui

[antu]

I just removed the woeusbgui that has wxgtk2 and find out my system are upgrade successfully

[antu]

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