NEED HELP: can't update software by pacman any more

[mickpf]

Hi folks,

can anybody help me to solve the folllowing error:

[~:503]# pacman -Syyu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core 212.2 KiB 468K/s 00:00 [#############################################] 100%
extra 2.3 MiB 128K/s 00:18 [#############################################] 100%
community 2.5 MiB 129K/s 00:20 [#############################################] 100%
alarm 70.7 KiB 133K/s 00:01 [#############################################] 100%
aur 67.4 KiB 118K/s 00:01 [#############################################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
:: Replace font-misc-ethiopic with extra/xorg-fonts-misc? [Y/n] y
:: Replace mesa-dri with extra/mesa? [Y/n] y
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: package-query: requires pacman<4.2

Active pacman version is 4.2.0-5

Kind Regards,
Michael

[Socaltom]

Go through the list of changes and interventions here
https://www.archlinux.org/
for any things that might be impacting you.
Tom

[pepedog]

I think you have to
pacman -R package-query
But where did package-query come from, compile it yourself from aur?

[Guidobelix]

As far as I could understand, it gets installed if you install yaourt (noobs like me like some help to install aur packages ).
To fix the problem it is enough to reinstall package-query, either using yaourt or in the "official" aur way.

[mickpf]

Hello folks,

when I try 'pacman -R package-query', I get

checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: yaourt: requires package-query>=1.4

I don't understand the cause of this problem, because I use official repositories only and install updates continuos.

Kind Regards,
Michael

[Guidobelix]

As far as I could see package-query is not in any official repository.
Have you installed yaourt on your system? If yes try yaourt -S package-query.
If not (but then I don't know how package-query got installed) look here: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/package-query/ and follow instructions there.

[mickpf]

Hello,

man ythanks to Guidobelix, his hint works!
I think/remember, it was required for special software installation, I used some months before.

How ever..., many thanks

Kind Regards,
Michael