Hello, I don’t use my laptop for a week and today I try to upgrade. I see errors like this: ➜ LANG=C yay -Syu [sudo] password for mariank: :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date extra is up to date community is up to date multilib is up to date endeavouros is up to date :: S…

Npm errors during upgrade

keybreak July 22, 2021, 7:18am 2

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[FAQ] Package installation says FILENAME exists in filesystem; “Failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)” Newbie

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…

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