I want to try the new Plasma 6 beta so I followed the instructions on the Arch wiki on how to enable the kde-unstable repo and tried to update the system, but when I try pacman says “plasma-activities and kactivities are in conflict”, both are required by some of the packages that it’s trying to update and there’s no way to ignore the conflict.

Does anyone know how to install it?

  • ayayaEnglish
    6•1 year ago

    As long as you still have access to the cli it should be fixable. If you want to still try to get to plasma 6 make sure you also enabled the core-testing and extra-testing repos in addition to kde-unstable as per the wiki

    If you enable any other testing repository listed in the following subsections, you must also enable both core-testing and extra-testing

    I missed that little snippet when I first swapped over.

    If you do yay kf6 you can install all of the framework-related packages which might also help fill out some missing dependencies. For me it’s 1-71. You can do the same with yay plasma and then choose the ones from kde-unstable (122-194 for me) but you will have to manually avoid the ones with conflicts like plasma-framework.

    But if you want to try and revert theoretically simply removing the testing and unstable repos and doing another sudo pacman -Syu should get you back onto the older versions.

    • @[email protected]OP
      1•1 year ago

      It’s ok, I did a backup with clonezilla before trying it of course :) But thanks for the help