[arm-allstar] Speedtest Installation Error

[Tony Ross]

On 05/02/2019 09:36 AM, "Steve Agee via ARM-allstar" wrote:
> I tried to install the Python package for speedtest-cli and received 
> the following errors. Can anyone please comment on what am I doing 
> wrong here?

You're not doing anything wrong; the package conflict exists in 
python-setuptools:
[root at allstar]# pacman -S python-setuptools
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (4) python-packaging-16.5-1?? python-pyparsing-2.1.0-1 
python-six-1.10.0-1?? python-setuptools-1:20.3.1-1

Total Installed Size:?? 2.01 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
(4/4) checking keys in keyring 
[########################################################] 100%
(4/4) checking package integrity 
[########################################################] 100%
(4/4) loading package files 
[########################################################] 100%
(4/4) checking for file conflicts 
[########################################################] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
python-setuptools: /usr/bin/easy_install exists in filesystem
...

I solved the problem with :

[root at allstar]# mv /usr/bin/easy_install /usr/bin/easy_install.OK
'/usr/bin/easy_install' -> '/usr/bin/easy_install.OK'

"pacman -S speedtest-cli" then installs correctly with a new version of 
/usr/bin/easy_install and speedtest works as expected.