On 2014-07-31 09:37, Paul Gideon Dann wrote:
On Thursday 31 Jul 2014 09:07:00 Doug Newgard wrote:
> Your database is probably out of date. Try:
>
> # pacman -Syy
>
> and try again.
>
> Paul

No, do not do -Syy, do -Syu or -Syyu. -Syy just leads to problems.

It *just* leads to problems? Mmm; it *may* lead to problems, yes.
Experience of what
happens in practice tells me that it will almost certainly be fine and
will avoid a potentially long
and unwanted system update in the middle of work.

But yes, technically, it's better to do -Syu so that you're not
potentially installing a package
that was built against another package that you have have an
out-of-date version of, possibly
leading to the new package segfaulting or failing to launch.

Paul

If you do it habitually, yes, you WILL run into problems eventually.

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