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I'm on Arco Linux(the most basic one).

I have installed the nodejs package with pacman.

Now when I run sudo pacman -Su I am getting nodejs-lts-gallium and nodejs are in conflict. Remove nodejs? [y/N]. But when I run pacman -Qi nodejs-lts-gallium, it says error: package 'nodejs-lts-gallium' was not found

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How do I remove the nodejs-lts-gallium artifacts causing the conflict?

AritroSinha
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What is happening is that an installed package had a new dependecy to nodejs-lts-gallium. Or a transitive dependency does. E.g. InstalledPackageA now depends on packageB that depends on nodejs-lts-gallium.

You can see what would be upgraded with the following command :

pacman -Su --print --print-format %n

From that you can check what package does explicitely depend on it, with for example (edited thanks to Harm's suggestion):

pacman -Si $(pacman -Su --print --print-format %n) | grep -B9 nodejs-lts-gallium

A package should appear Depends On [...] nodejs-lts-gallium, that's the package which requires it.

gileri
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    I had the same problem as described in the question and ran a similar check. For me, the "atom" editor was the culprit. – tedy42 Apr 01 '22 at 09:23
  • For me it was Atom too. With eyes in tears I removed Atom ... But relying on an LTS dependency tells you everything about the current status of the application – Martin Sand Apr 01 '22 at 12:16
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    `pacman -Si $(pacman -Su --print --print-format %n) | grep nodejs-lts-gallium -9` helps shorten the output of the second command to the culprit. For me it was `apm`, so I ran `yay -Syu --ignore apm` to at least upgrade everything else – Harm Apr 22 '22 at 08:13