As mentioned in the titel the merge of this two packages prevents me from updating.
sudo pacman -Syu gives me the following output:
:: Package databases are synchronised … core is up to date extra 8.3 MiB 22.2 MiB/s 00:00 [--------------------------------------------------------------------] 100% community is up to date multilib is up to date :: Complete system update is started … :: replace analitza with extra/analitza5? [Y/n] :: replace appstream-qt with extra/appstream-qt5? [Y/n] :: replace kdsoap with extra/kdsoap-qt5? [Y/n] :: replace kquickimageeditor with extra/kquickimageeditor5? [Y/n] :: replace libkcddb with extra/libkcddb5? [Y/n] :: replace libkdcraw with extra/libkdcraw5? [Y/n] Dependencies are resolved …
Conflicting packages are searched for … Error: Unresolvable package conflicts found Error: Process could not be prepared (Conflicting dependencies) :: jdk-openjdk and jre-openjdk are in conflict with each other
pacman -Qi tells me the following:
Name : jre-openjdk Version : 21.u35-3 Description : OpenJDK Java 21 full runtime environment Architecture : x86_64 URL : https://openjdk.java.net/ Licences : custom Groups : Nothing Provides : java-runtime=21 java-runtime-openjdk=21 jre21-openjdk=21.u35-3 Depends on : jre21-openjdk-headless=21.u35-3 giflib libgif.so glibc gcc-libs libpng Optional dependencies : alsa-lib: for basic sound support [Installed] gtk2: for the Gtk+ 2 look and feel - desktop usage [Installed] gtk3: for the Gtk+ 3 look and feel - desktop usage [Installed] Required by : jdk-openjdk minecraft-launcher Optional for : libbluray libjpeg-turbo libjxl libreoffice-fresh In conflict with : Nothing Replaced : Nothing Install size : 589.86 KiB Packer : Frederik Schwan Created on : Thu 21 Sep 2023 21:15:27 CEST Installed on : Sun 01 Oct 2023 16:09:39 CEST Reason for installation : Installed as a dependency of another package Installation script : Yes Verified by : Signature
and
Name : jdk-openjdk Version : 21.u35-3 Description : OpenJDK Java 21 development kit architecture : x86_64 URL : https://openjdk.java.net/ Licenses : custom groups : Nichts provides : java-environment=21 java-environment-openjdk=21 jdk21-openjdk=21.u35-3 dependend from : jre21-openjdk=21.u35-3 java-environment-common=3 hicolor-icon-theme libelf glibc gcc-libs optional dependencies : Nichts needed from : netbeans optional for : libreoffice-fresh In Konflikt mit : Nichts replaces : Nichts Installation Size : 308,99 MiB Packer : Frederik Schwan created at : Do 21 Sep 2023 21:15:27 CEST date of installation : So 01 Okt 2023 16:09:40 CEST Installationreason : Installed as a dependency of another package Installation Script : Ja verified through : Signatur
Manually updating/removing one of the two packages still gives me the Error that they are conflicting.
Does anyone knows how i can fix this problem?
You can also use informant, which will notify you of unread news when using pacman
Paru has this funtionality build in. I don’t remember whether it is enabled by default though.
No, I think you have to enable it by default. I moved back to yay some time ago, because paru development seemed stalled (e.g. paru -G not working anymore) but the news integration was one of its nice small features that I have not seen somewhere else.
paru -G is dependent on the asp package and works just fine, it’s more likely you forgot to install it as it’s an optional dependency like bat. Nore is development “stalled”, it’s more or less feature complete and doesn’t have much worth creating a new release for.
Since the move to git, asp is deprecated. It downloads the latest version from svn (from before the migration), not from git (which now has the latest versions). A bug was open for a long time without any activity. I see it has been fixed in the meanwhile, but yeah, it does not give me confidence it will keep up with arch changes in the future. Pity, it was a nice project. Maybe some new developers could pick it up, who knows. (I would have helped, but my knowledge of rust is too limited for now).
Paru v2.0.0 has now dropped asp for the pure git approach.
Great! And now I realized one great feature I missed: “-Sss” to be able to immediately see and visit upstream URLs of packages. It’s so simple, but so handy when comparing different options.
It’s probably not too hard to switch from asp to pkgctl, I’ll look into it whenever I get some free time. Tho, there is the possibility of directly using git so there’s no outside dependencies whatsoever.