Python-charset-normalizer package preventing system update (failed to commit transaction, conflicting files)

[pebcak]

Most probably, at some point, you used sudo pip install to install that package.

You should never use sudo pip to install “extraneous” packages into your system directories.

Read through this and you will find the solution to get yourself out of this:

[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…