Manual intevention needed: python-cairo, Conflicting files during update

[r0ckhopper]

Hello and welcome @OldHippyDave Enjoy the purple ride

[joekamprad]

@mnrvovrfc

IIRC “meld” was pre-installed from ISO; I did not go online to install EndeavourOS. I haven’t used it because I don’t know what it’s for LOL.

Meld is used for merging pacnew/pacsave configs on config file changes from welcome app:

[joekamprad]

welcome to the purple side @OldHippyDave

[mnrvovrfc]

Sometimes reading the “man pacman” discourages me from learning new things about it. Thank you for this information.

[anthony93]

@mnrvovrfc

No problem at all. This page has a general guideline on how to use pacman properly.

[dalto]

@anthony93

Check which package owns conflicting file:
pacman -Qo <conflicting_file>

The pacman command tells you if it is owned by another package(and which package it is) so if you find this issue as part of pacman command there should be no need for this step.

[cheese]

Thanks a lot!
I got the EOS email today about this post, my plan was to wait until it updated just fine but this works great

[joekamprad]

welcome here @cheese
If you have the package version installed that do not hold the file it would always stay with the conflict till you solve

[sveto]

Hi all,

I just renamed conflicted files with filenameBAK and let the update run.

No problems after that, but good to know about --overwrite command!

Sveto

[arcDaniel]

why not simply follow the working instruction from @dalto ?

[anthony93]

Because he read the ArchWiki before he saw this post on the forum.