Can't install deepin

i am using kde but wanted to try deepin

i tried to install it and i get:

error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
/usr/lib/libdeepin-pdfium.so exists in both ‘deepin-pdfium’ and ‘deepin-reader’
/usr/lib/libdeepin-pdfium.so.1 exists in both ‘deepin-pdfium’ and ‘deepin-reader’
/usr/lib/libdeepin-pdfium.so.1.0 exists in both ‘deepin-pdfium’ and ‘deepin-reader’
/usr/lib/libdeepin-pdfium.so.1.0.0 exists in both ‘deepin-pdfium’ and ‘deepin-reader’
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
➜ ~

i used this command to get deepin:

sudo pacman -S deepin deepin-extra

i really wanna try or experience deepin but idk this seems bad :-\

on a arch forum they said to update the system which i did. no luck…

thanks in advance for any help or ideas

That looks like a packaging issue to me.

As a workaround, when you get the list of packages in deepin-extra, just choose not to install deepin-reader.

That being said, I would warn you that the deepin experience on arch-based distros is not a good one. It works OK one day and not OK the next. It isn’t something I would recommend using outside of a test VM.

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Considering the main Deepin Linux project has had a spotty record around potential user privacy concerns I’m not sure if I personally would install their DE on my own system.

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That’s the main reason I never mess with Deepin. I don’t know if I’d trust a Chinese team developing an OS and DE, even if it is open source. If another team elsewhere were to fork it, I’d more than likely give it a shot.

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