Re: [arch-general] "npm" package issues

2020-11-04 Thread Greg Minshall via arch-general
Eli, > The files should definitely be owned, though... I suspect your issue > is due to upgrading the pacman version, resulting in some files that > could not be deleted due to not existing, but were not part of the new > package and therefore did not exist afterward either. thanks. in theory (m

Re: [arch-general] "npm" package issues

2020-11-04 Thread Greg Minshall via arch-general
Yash, i (according to the pacman log) explicitly installed npm-check-updates. (i've just now removed it; i think i installed it when i was initially flailing around, trying to understand the npm-verse.) in terms of arch packages, the arch package page https://www.archlinux.org/packages/commu

Re: [arch-general] "npm" package issues

2020-11-04 Thread Greg Minshall via arch-general
this is just a status update, mostly for anyone in the future who might find this useful for their problem. but, if anyone in the near-present has any comment, i'm happy. (and, i appreciate all the help up to now!) presumably this is all fallout from some historic "npm update -g". way too many

Re: [arch-general] "npm" package issues

2020-11-04 Thread Greg Minshall via arch-general
thanks, Nick and Maarten. i guess all paths include some trepidation on my part. Nick -- i think it's a good assumption i *did* do some sort of "npm ... -g" action. i've often wondered how distributions (arch and others) deal with users of R, (now) npm, etc., doing a system-wide install of (sub-

Re: [arch-general] "npm" package issues

2020-11-04 Thread Greg Minshall via arch-general
hi, Toni, thanks for the question. actually, i don't know, but if i bothered to sudo, it would have been to do -g (global). do you know (maybe it's a stupid, "well, duh!", question...) if, in that case, my system would become "un-pacman'able"? especially, in such as way as i've described. chee

[arch-general] "npm" package issues

2020-11-04 Thread Greg Minshall via arch-general
hi. [hope all are well, etc.] i use the npm package (for managing javascript packages). today i tried "pacman -Syu", and i got a number of errors about files under /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules that "exists in filesystem": (182/182) checking for file conflicts error: failed to comm

Re: [arch-general] Belated Arch-Conf pacman improvement suggestion

2020-10-11 Thread Greg Minshall via arch-general
thanks everybody for the conference! in addition to the content (and getting to see at least a few people's faces), the production details were great. > When updating, if on the first repo, the first mirror selected > times-out, then mark that repo failed for the remaining repo checks so > you

Re: [arch-general] conflict on /usr/bin generated by tigervnc?

2020-09-09 Thread Greg Minshall via arch-general
Eli, > And I would like to reiterate: really, really, REALLY, do not use > --overwrite unless you know what you're doing or have done as the OP did > and asked (and been told to do so). The entire *point* of the option is > to declare that your Arch installation is broken and you need to tell > pa