Greetings. Maybe i messed up something (again). I am facing quite a few issues. Before a few days i tried installing microsoft teams through software center. No error. But after installing I cannot open software center at all (no errors). I faced same issue today while installing ttf-microsoft fonts. Those were not a major issue as i can do without them but now I am not being able to update.
sudo pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
multilib is up to date
chaotic-aur is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
:: Replace qca with extra/qca-qt5? [Y/n] y
warning: rare-git: local (1.5_beta.r5.gbe25abe-1) is newer than chaotic-aur (1.5_beta2.r5.gf8b467c-1)
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
warning: removing 'poppler' from target list because it conflicts with 'poppler-git'
:: poppler-git and poppler are in conflict. Remove poppler? [y/N] y
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'poppler=21.06.1' required by poppler-qt5
Previously I tried resolving(removed mentioned packages and followed few archwiki guides) and thought maybe there was some package error or I did something wrong. So i went back to snapshot before 5 days when everything was good. But now my application Launcher which used to be on far left is on Rightmost corner and I have some unknown 'Gray' icon in Launcher Dock (Like a deleted package). Any assistance would be highly appreciated.
Welcome to the forum
those pkg upgrafe errors are just same packages. just from a different repo(qca-qt5) or the git(development) version. so you can say yes to that while upgrading. As for the software center aka Add/remove software aka Pamac (AUR helper) as it is called.. is not rebuilt for pacman v6( the package manager for Arch) and hence is having errors. so for time being use paru which is preinstalled. do your updates with paru -Syu as paru uses same options as pacman. other than that I see no obvious problem. you can install teams with paru too. For the dock thingy.. just remove/unpin the widget with no icon and again add the widget which you want. should be pretty easy.
Regards.
It would be a good idea to find out which package actually needs this as it seems to be a new dependency. This prevents installation since another package requires poppler=21.06.1
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:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
multilib is up to date
chaotic-aur is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
:: Replace qca with extra/qca-qt5? [Y/n] y
warning: rare-git: local (1.5_beta.r5.gbe25abe-1) is newer than chaotic-aur (1.5_beta2.r5.gf8b467c-1)
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
warning: removing 'poppler' from target list because it conflicts with 'poppler-git'
:: poppler-git and poppler are in conflict. Remove poppler? [y/N] y
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: unable to satisfy dependency 'poppler=21.06.1' required by poppler-qt5
I get the same error. I am sure there are few updates as i went back to 5 day old snapshot
Yes.. I was able to have a system update by ignoring multiple packages. But is this a solution? Will I face some critical issue later? and will I have to ignore these packages every time i perform a update?
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: installing poppler (21.06.1-1) breaks dependency 'poppler=21.05.0' required by poppler-glib-git
:: installing poppler (21.06.1-1) breaks dependency 'poppler=21.05.0' required by poppler-qt5
This is the error i got
I tried updating the mentioned packages individually
sudo pacman -S poppler-glib-git
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
:: poppler-git and poppler are in conflict. Remove poppler? [y/N] y
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing poppler breaks dependency 'poppler=21.05.0' required by poppler-qt5
sudo pacman -S poppler-qt5
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: installing poppler (21.06.1-1) breaks dependency 'poppler=21.05.0' required by poppler-glib-git
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
chaotic-aur is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
warning: libelf: ignoring package upgrade (0.184-1 => 0.185-1)
resolving dependencies...
warning: ignoring package libelf-0.185-1
warning: cannot resolve "libelf=0.185-1", a dependency of "elfutils"
:: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies:
elfutils
:: Do you want to skip the above package for this upgrade? [y/N] y
looking for conflicting packages...
Packages (17) blender-17:2.93.0-2 freeglut-3.2.1-2 krita-4.4.3-4 librsvg-2:2.50.7-1 mintstick-1.4.5-1 nnn-4.1.1-1 opencolorio-2.0.1-2
opencolorio1-1.1.1-3 poppler-21.06.1-1 poppler-glib-21.06.1-1 poppler-qt5-21.06.1-1 pystring-1.1.3.git1-1
signal-desktop-5.4.0-1 timeshift-20.11.1+3+g08d0e59-4 util-linux-2.37-1 util-linux-libs-2.37-1 whoogle-git-0.5.2_r374.g09efd62-1
Total Download Size: 253,68 MiB
Total Installed Size: 878,87 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: 9,49 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
LANG=C pacman -Qi poppler
Name : poppler
Version : 21.06.0-1
Description : PDF rendering library based on xpdf 3.0
Architecture : x86_64
URL : https://poppler.freedesktop.org/
Licenses : GPL
Groups : None
Provides : libpoppler.so=111-64 libpoppler-cpp.so=0-64
Depends On : libjpeg gcc-libs cairo fontconfig openjpeg2 lcms2 nss curl
Optional Deps : poppler-data: highly recommended encoding data to display PDF documents with certain encodings and characters [installed]
Required By : libreoffice-fresh poppler-glib poppler-qt5
Optional For : ranger
Conflicts With : poppler-qt3<21.06.0 poppler-qt4<21.06.0
Maybe solved (Unsure :))
The problem was with some package used for scanner I guess. Not that i use one but maybe I had it installed during system installation just in case.
For solution:
I removed all packages which needed the problematic package as dependency
My original issue was not snapshot. Rather package conflict. The timeshift snapshot issue was something i encountered today and didnt take long with some help from forum. I still have an issue of software center (GUI) Not responding after installing few softwares. I faced it while installing microsoft teams but didnt encounter anything such when installing jetbrains idea ultimate. Maybe it is a dependency issue again and i will keep looking at it to the best of my ability
Ps: Strangely.. I am encountering such issue whenever i try to install packages from Microsoft
Is anyone else facing the same issue as me??
if i am checking things the right way though
Hope you a have a working snapshot. 