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?

  • NeshuraEnglish
    3•1 year ago

    Hopefully helpful:

    you need the following packages for kde-unstable:

    • plasma-activities
    • plasma-activities-stats
    • libplasma

    Your Update likely removed these from your system breaking plasma6

    The following packages are likely to blame (this list is likely incomplete):

    • kweather (I removed it since I don’t use it)
    • dolphin (as suggested above switching to dolphin-git should help, alternatively installing extra/dolphin will install the plasma 5 version bypassing the dependency problems)
    • kio-extras (same fix as for dolphin)
    • sweeper (see above)

    Edit: if you have terminal access you can try the following (no guarantee it’ll work, I think it should but no guarantees):

    • pacman -Rdd kactivites kactivites-stats plasma-framework
    • pacman -Syudd libplasma plasma-activities plasma-activities-stats

    What I did (switch to plasma 5 versions):

    • pacman -Syudd extra/dolphin extra/sweeper extra/kio-extras extra/kweather

    What you could do (switch to git):

    • $AUR_HELPER -Syu dolphin-git sweeper-git kio-extras-git kweather-git
    • NeshuraEnglish
      4•1 year ago

      Update: the bad packages got updated, you should be fine just installing them from kde-unstable again

      • ayayaEnglish
        3•1 year ago

        Wow, that is incredibly unfortunate timing.

        • NeshuraEnglish
          4•1 year ago

          cosmically unfortunate timing, package maintainer probably just took a nap between updating most packages and fixing the leftovers and the resulting gap caused this mayhem

          • Strit
            2•1 year ago

            It’s called kde-unstable for a reason! ;) Packaging issues are expected to happen as it’s where the maintainer irons out the issues.