In order to update hyprland-git, I need to install hyprwayland-scanner-git. But when I try to install it, pacman says that it failed to commit a transaction.

I followed the arch wiki, but unfortunately, the file in question is owned by hyprwayland-scanner, so I’m not sure how to proceed.

  • @taaz@biglemmowski.win
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    5 days ago
    yay -Rd hyprwayland-scanner # (or -Rdd but danger ahead) 
    yay -S --asdeps hyprwayland-scanner-git
    
    • BinetteOP
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      45 days ago

      Thanks! That worked for me (I just used yay -Rd hyprwayland-scanner-debug aswell).

  • Strit
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    35 days ago

    hyprwayland-scanner-git is also an AUR package, so pacman can’t install that. You need to install it with some other means, like makepkg, yay, paru etc, before installing hyprland-git.

    • BinetteOP
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      15 days ago

      I tried installing it with yay. It’s just that when I install it with yay, it gives me a conflict with the existing pacman package and asks me if I want to remove the pacman package. When I say yes, it gives me the above error, and when I say no, it doesn’t let me install hyprland-git

      • Strit
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        15 days ago

        Can you post the full output from the installation command? It must have given some other error at some point.

        • BinetteOP
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          25 days ago

          Nope, that was the only error. But I fixed it thanks to the comment above.