Unable to install KDE Partition Manager - Dependency Conflict

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I’m attempting to install KDE Partition Manager, however I get a dependency conflict…

could not satisfy dependencies:
- removing kpmcore5 breaks dependency 'kpmcore5>=23.05.0' required by calamares5

using pacman -Syuu

    ~  sudo pacman -Syuu partitionmanager                                                    ✔  31s  
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 multilib is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
:: kpmcore-24.05.2-1 and kpmcore5-23.08.5-1 are in conflict. Remove kpmcore5? [y/N] y
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing kpmcore5 breaks dependency 'kpmcore5>=23.05.0' required by calamares5

and…

    ~  sudo pacman -Rns kpmcore5                                                                   1 ✘ 
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing kpmcore5 breaks dependency 'kpmcore5>=23.05.0' required by calamares5
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I don’t think calamares is actually needed after installation, so should be safe to remove that. I see I have calamares-tools on my system but doubt I actually need it. You can always reinstall it later if you do actually need it.

Note that QT5 apps etc. are being deprecated; there should be a QT6 version coming soon for these, if not already available.

Also, I thought KDE Partition Manager is (or at least was) installed by default?

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It’s not installed.

So did I, but it’s not.

There’s just this strange dependency issue.

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calamares-tools might be, though I guess you searched for that. I did pamac search calamares | grep -i installed to see what was there. :wink:

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only…

    ~  pamac search calamares | grep -i installed                                      1 ✘  11s    
calamares5  3.2.62-9 [Installed]

Sometimes we look but do not see. As soon as I removed that, KDE Partition manager showed as installed.

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sudo pacman -S gparted

…is generally a better option, is it not?

(Yes, it is).

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I’ve not noticed any substantial difference.

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Well, GParted doesn’t have a history of creating misaligned partitions, for a start. I’ve noticed that issue mentioned often in recent months, when using the KDE Partition Manager (more than twice is often, in the world according to me).

There was something else, too… but, I’ve forgotten what it was.

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This is to be expected on the live ISO.

I am told that Calamares 3.3 (calamares package(qt6)) has some unresolved issues.

These issues is the argument for using Calamares 3.2 (calamares5 (qt5)) on the install medium.

The installer should not be present on the final system - which will - due to the above - not include the partitionmanager - should be easy to adf if needed.

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It’s installed now see above

As soon as I removed calamares5 3.2.62-9, KDE Partition manager installed

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