Cannot update pcsclite with latest update

[endbob]

Today’s system update shows new pcsclite (1.9.2-1) but won’t upgrade due to error:

error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
pcsclite: /usr/bin/pcsc-spy exists in filesystem
pcsclite: /usr/bin/pcscd exists in filesystem
pcsclite: /usr/include/PCSC/debuglog.h exists in filesystem
pcsclite: /usr/include/PCSC/ifdhandler.h exists in filesystem
pcsclite: /usr/include/PCSC/pcsclite.h exists in filesystem
pcsclite: /usr/include/PCSC/reader.h exists in filesystem
pcsclite: /usr/include/PCSC/winscard.h exists in filesystem
pcsclite: /usr/include/PCSC/wintypes.h exists in filesystem
pcsclite: /usr/lib/libpcsclite.so exists in filesystem
pcsclite: /usr/lib/libpcsclite.so.1 exists in filesystem
pcsclite: /usr/lib/libpcsclite.so.1.0.0 exists in filesystem
pcsclite: /usr/lib/libpcscspy.so exists in filesystem
pcsclite: /usr/lib/libpcscspy.so.0 exists in filesystem
pcsclite: /usr/lib/libpcscspy.so.0.0.0 exists in filesystem
pcsclite: /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libpcsclite.pc exists in filesystem
pcsclite: /usr/lib/systemd/system/pcscd.service exists in filesystem
pcsclite: /usr/lib/systemd/system/pcscd.socket exists in filesystem
pcsclite: /usr/share/licenses/pcsclite/LICENSE exists in filesystem
pcsclite: /usr/share/man/man1/pcsc-spy.1.gz exists in filesystem
pcsclite: /usr/share/man/man5/reader.conf.5.gz exists in filesystem
pcsclite: /usr/share/man/man8/pcscd.8.gz exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

Any help would be much appreciated.

[pebcak]

Please refer to the following post:

[FAQ] 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…

[endbob]

Thanks a lot for that. I forced the install with the overwrite option and that seems to have fixed it.