I've recently installed Arch Linux onto my primary (Ubuntu) computer, and it is working really well for me. It's fast, configurable, basically a faster version of Ubuntu.
Since compiz-fusion
isn't installed by default, I'd like to see how much it would impact my performance, but I get this really nice and descriptive error message when I run pacman
to install it:
[root@arch /]# pacman -S compiz-fusion-gtk
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
:: python and python2 are in conflict (python<3). Remove python2? [y/N] n
error: unresolvable package conflicts detected
error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
:: python and python2 are in conflict (python<3)
haven't installed python3
, and my only installed Python version is Python 2.7.1
, which doesn't seem to be conflicting with anything.
Google didn't turn up any results, so has anybody come across an error like this before? compiz-fusion
isn't the only package which fails to install because of this python conflict, so quite a few nice packages (like python-qt
) are uninstallable for me.
Any help is help for me. Thanks!
Best Answer
On Arch Linux, the
python
package contains python 3, and thepython2
package contains python 2.Try
pacman -Sy python python2
first. Once both of those packages are installed,compiz-fusion
andpython-qt
should install.Oh, and you can't have updated your system in a while.
dbus-python
doesn't depend on thepython
package any more, but on thepython2
package (since october 2010, according to SVN).