On 04/11/2012 09:49 AM, Madhurya Kakati wrote:
Hi,
I am unable to update my system. I guess this problem has occurred to me before
but unfortunately I forgot how to get around it.

[papul@archlinux ~]$ sudo pacman -Su
Password:
:: The following packages should be upgraded first :
pacman
:: Do you want to cancel the current operation
:: and upgrade these packages now? [Y/n] y

resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
:: gcc-libs and gcc-libs-multilib are in conflict. Remove
gcc-libs-multilib? [y/N] y
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: gcc-multilib: requires gcc-libs-multilib=4.7.0-3

I just ran into the same issue. All I did was just install pacman manually not through the update process
pacman -S pacman
It did not give the complaint about gcc doing it this way then re-did pacman -Syu
finished update and all is well again.

HTH

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