Report on minor update issue

[jonathon]

@Michael_joseph

it failed to update due to certain files in the system partition.

Package installation says FILENAME exists in filesystem; “Failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)”

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 de…

@Michael_joseph

i’m making this report

If you could report which package was causing the conflict then it could possibly be addressed by a change to the package. Otherwise, if the files were installed manually by yourself then deleting the files prior to the update is the only way to resolve the issue.