Can't do full sysupgrade becausen of file permission conflict between `brotli` and its `lib32` counterpart

[cactux]

It is not about file permission.

Looks like both brotli and its lib32 counterpart use man pages with the same naming.

Since those already exist on the filesystem, pacman refuses to overwrite them.

Have a look at the following post by highly estimated and missed @jonathon:

[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 desi…