/usr/bin/mix (ethereum) binary conflicts with /usr/bin/mix (elixir) binary on *nix systems
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Was going to install elixir on my Arch box today when I, to great surprise, got this error:
$ yaourt -S elixir
<normal output>
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
elixir: /usr/bin/mix exists in filesystem
As it turns out, mix is the build tool for elixir. So without it, elixir is pretty much unusable.
Confused, I ran pacman -Qo /usr/bin/mix and got the answer which is what led me here:
/usr/bin/mix is owned by ethereum 1.1.3-1
This was apparently something that bothered me enough to create this issue, I'm not sure what is a reasonable course of action but since elixir/mix existed first, I guess it might be up to the ethereum community to make the move if someone will.
So, just to make some proposal: Perhaps rename the binary to mixide or something similar? Might be a good thing to do early on before the inconvenience of changing the executable name becomes overly cumbersome (if it isn't already).
Oh, and I'm very much just assuming this extends to other *nix systems. I haven't actually tested my claim so excuse me if my intuition is misguided.
Hi @ErikBjare I'm the maintainer of the ArchLinux packages, I could rename the mix binary to mix-ide or something, but it would be better if this would be done upstream @yann300 @LianaHus --- saying that it would be easier for me if the result of make would already yield a mix-ide named binary. Would that be possible?
@ErikBjare I also just got this error yesterday -- any ideas about a fix? :)
Yes I guess we should rename it to mix-ide in the build process
@ErikBjare i fixed it for archlinux. try to update. new binary is called mix-ide.
still needs to be fixed upstream.
Ubuntu: Fixed for ppa-develop, still need a mechanism to properly upgrade the package.
Windows?
MacOS?
@bobsummerwill
I believe that we're done on this now.