[Solved] Tried to install epiphany, but it wants to remove Cairo

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Hello all
Thought of trying out gnome-web. When I tried to install, a pop-up comes saying some file "lib…’ is not available and Resolution is
a) Remove cairo
B) ignore for now ( with this selected, installation aborts)

What is Cairo needed for? And why it is required to uninstall it for installing Epiphany?

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There are two conflicting versions of Cairo, if no other packages are listed by pkgman you can safely remove it, the other version will be installed in its place.

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Thank you. Your suggestion worked. instead of cairo, other packages were installed
writing from epiphany…no flicker during scrolling

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Same here with Gimp 2.99. I made a fresh installation of the Beta 4 on my ASUS laptop today and a software update. After that I got the same error while trying to install Gimp. The solution worked and I deinstalled Cairo as suggested. Thanks.

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