[SOLVED] Will not upgrade system due to some file conflict...

BW-userx · 07-01-2018, 08:40 PM

I have no idea how to fix this so I can upgrade,
error

Code:

(164/164) checking for file conflicts              [######################] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
thunar-archive-plugin: /usr/lib/xfce4/thunar-archive-plugin/engrampa.tap exists in filesystem (owned by engrampa-thunar-plugin)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

I've already tried

Code:

$ sudo pacman -r thunar-archive-plugin
warning: option --root is deprecated; use --sysroot instead
error: failed to initialize alpm library
(could not find or read directory: thunar-archive-plugin/var/lib/pacman/)
userx@manjaro:~
$ sudo pacman -r thunar
warning: option --root is deprecated; use --sysroot instead
error: failed to initialize alpm library
(could not find or read directory: thunar/var/lib/pacman/)

BW-userx · 07-01-2018, 09:44 PM

I got it fixed.

Code:

sudo rm  /usr/lib/xfce4/thunar-archive-plugin/engrampa.tap

then ran upgrade again.

GeorG323 · 07-02-2018, 10:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BW-userx

I got it fixed.

Code:

sudo rm  /usr/lib/xfce4/thunar-archive-plugin/engrampa.tap

then ran upgrade again.

That worked for me as well, thanks for all the help!

BW-userx · 07-03-2018, 07:21 AM

No problem, I think they’ve got a glitch in there system.

zainka · 12-04-2018, 02:04 PM

..And I think the "glitch" is still remaining.

In a freash install, downloaded yesterday and installed, the first thing.... the verry first thing I did... was to do an

pacman -Syyu

and had the same problem.

A remove of the mentioned file and a new upgrade went fine after this.

Question is, did I need the file or not? Do not see any issues yet

BW-userx · 12-04-2018, 02:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zainka

..And I think the "glitch" is still remaining.

In a freash install, downloaded yesterday and installed, the first thing.... the verry first thing I did... was to do an

pacman -Syyu

and had the same problem.

A remove of the mentioned file and a new upgrade went fine after this.

Question is, did I need the file or not? Do not see any issues yet

this file? -----> /usr/lib/xfce4/thunar-archive-plugin/engrampa.tap

I never had an issue not having it installed, and I have also been a quite few installs of Manjaro since this issue, I vaguely remember seeing that again in one of the other installs and did the same, removed it, though I do not remember much about it after that.

nikgnomic · 01-04-2019, 10:25 PM

this was comment on Manjaro forum in June last year:

Quote:

thunar-archive-plugin: /usr/lib/xfce4/thunar-archive-plugin/engrampa.tap exists in filesystem (owned by engrampa-thunar-plugin)

It looks like this is a packaging conflict which hasn’t been addressed by the upstream package(s). It’s a pretty trivial fix though, simply uninstall engrampa-thunar-plugin:

sudo pacman -Rncs engrampa-thunar-plugin
sudo pacman -Syu

There’s no loss of functionality.

this is a known issue and has been mentioned in later the stable update announcements
still listed on last update announcement of 2018-12-31

https://forum.manjaro.org/c/announce...stable-updates