pkg broken? Unable to install packages...

Charlie cwr at SDF.ORG
Thu Jul 31 02:10:42 UTC 2014


On Wed, 30 Jul 2014, Adrian Chadd wrote:

> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 19:07:38 -0700
> From: Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org>
> To: Charlie <cwr at sdf.org>
> Cc: Roland Smith <rsmith at xs4all.nl>,
>     FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> Subject: Re: pkg broken? Unable to install packages...
> 
> Try pkg upgrade -f
>
>
> -a
>
>
> On 30 July 2014 18:07, Charlie <cwr at sdf.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, 29 Jul 2014, Roland Smith wrote:
>>
>>> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 20:57:23 +0200
>>> From: Roland Smith <rsmith at xs4all.nl>
>>> To: Charlie <cwr at SDF.ORG>
>>> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>>> Subject: Re: pkg broken? Unable to install packages...
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 10:20:16PM +0000, Charlie wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello list!
>>>>
>>>> I'm running 10-RELEASE x64, and all of a sudden I can't seem to install
>>>> any packages.
>>>>
>>>> No matter which package I attempt to install, the result is similar:
>>>
>>>
>>> Don't know if it is related, but there has been some breakage in pkg
>>> lately.
>>> Version 1.3.3 has hit the ports tree just now. You might want to try and
>>> install that from ports.
>>>
>>> If you build from ports, it uses the newly-built pkg-static inside the
>>> port
>>> for installation, so it should work.
>>>
>>> Roland
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>>
>> Hey Roland,
>>
>> Thanks for the reply. I tried what you suggested -- updating pkg to the
>> latest version via ports -- but no luck. Same errors as before, no matter
>> what I'm trying to install or update.
>>
>> Help!
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>> Charlie
>>
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This is the result of running 'pkg upgrade -f':

pkg: cannot resolve conflict between remote libGL(want install), local 
libGL(want keep), please resolve it manually
pkg: SAT: conflicting request, cannot solve
pkg: cannot solve job using SAT solver

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