Update didn't work because conflict, now I can't reinstall my DE

[maycne.sonahoz]

@niwla23

it told me pipewire-media-session and wireplumber are conflicting

[Stable Update] 2021-11-19 - Kernels, Gnome 41.1, Plasma 5.23.3, Frameworks 5.88, LxQt 1.0, Xorg-Server 21.1, Mesa

had the same problem with pacman… solution is: sudo pacman -S pipewire-media-session pamac install wireplumber

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@niwla23

And this is what it gave me

@philm

Pamac can’t handle file conflicts checking

As of now libpamac v11.1.2 has still the issue checking for file conflicts properly. Keep an eye on this ticket and use pacman for now as needed. As soon as a fix is available it will be pushed to all branches: Hangs on file conflicts checking (#1138) · Issues · Applications / pamac · GitLab

Solution: update to libpamac 11.1.3 sudo pacman -Sy libpamac

Update or package installation returns “Failed to commit transaction (conflicting files); FILENAME exists in filesystem”

I can’t install or update a package because I get (something like) this: error: could not prepare transaction error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) libname: /insert/file/name/here exists in filesystem Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. Why is this happening? The package manager, pacman, has detected an unexpected file already exists on disk. By design it will not overwrite files that already exist. This is a design feature, not a flaw - package managers are desig…