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Life-Saver Warning: If you know what a package is, you'd know that a package should definitely effortlessly integrate with its dependencies. This "package", instead, is currently a tangled web of circular dependencies, hardly meeting the fundamental definition of a package. If simplicity is what you seek, I advise you to look elsewhere. However, if you're determined to fix this mess of a package, follow the instructions by depieri.carlo below to untangle the mess. If it were up to me, I would recommend against including this package in the AUR altogether. This isn't personal matter, it's just that a package behaving this way undermines the very essence of what a package should be.

I'm going to post this workaround on every package involved, since a fix to these circular dependencies may not come easily: both python-expects and python-doublex-expects depends on python-mamba for their tests, while python-mamba uses python-doublex-expects (which depends on python-expects) in its tests suite. It's a mess.

The workaround is to install both python-expects and python-doublex-expects by skipping their check steps, since both depend on python-mamba.

If you are using an helper like yay you can do this quickly by running: yay -Sy --mflags "--nocheck" aur/python-expects aur/python-doublex-expects.

Now you can install python-mamba normally (and, if you want, reinstall python-expects and python-doublex-expects as well, so that they may go through their normal check steps).

Otherwise, to do this manually start with python-expects:

• download the PKGBUILD file from aur

• install the package using makepkg -si --nocheck from the folder where you saved the PKGBUILD file. This will skip the check step and won't try to install python-mamba.

Then repeat these steps for python-doublex-expects (but first make sure python-doublex from aur is installed, since makepkg can't install that for you).

Finally, install python-mamba normally (and optionally reinstall the expects packages, as discussed above).

I am having the exact same problem as @Kevdog.

Failed to install the following packages. Manual intervention is required:
python-doublex-expects - exit status 8
python-dockerpty - exit status 8
python-expects - exit status 8
python-mamba - exit status 8

I can't install this package -- python-doublex-expects is a dependency but also python-doublex-expects requires python-mamba so I'm kind of caught in a circular dependency hell right now. Any suggestions?