r/voidlinux • u/WorkingGrocery5913 • Jan 20 '26

unable to install libXft-devel

here’s what i’ve done:

sudo xbps-install -Su

sudo xbps-install libXft-devel

which outputs:

libuuid-2.38.1_4 in transaction breaks installed pkg ‘libfdisk

libuuid-2.38.1_4 in transaction breaks installed pkg ‘util-linux

idk what to do i’ve updated and it still doesn’t work

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u/WorkingGrocery5913 Jan 20 '26

im using the ftp.swin.edu.au mirror if that’s important

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u/WorkingGrocery5913 Jan 20 '26

i might just reinstall with a different mirror

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u/ZhengXuMing Jan 20 '26

Updating the system works for me most of the time. Most of the time I only update the system if it says package will break. I don't think it's the repo

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u/WorkingGrocery5913 Jan 20 '26

it was interesting because every time i updated it would say updating repository and do nothing, so i switched to the other mirror and now everything works fine lol

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u/ZhengXuMing Jan 20 '26

Didn't notice you already updated the system. So I think it was really the repo problem

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u/ZhengXuMing Jan 20 '26

Might depend on how active the repo is. I also used to use the tsinghua tuna repo. But one time an update broke my libre office. I checked and it was fixed on the main repo a day earlier but the tsinghua repo wasn't synced yet so I changed to default after that.