Closing.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … bumping.22
The only supported upgrade path is -Syu, and posts like this are exactly the reason why.
Perhaps pacman could mention this:
# pacman -S chromium
chromium is already installed, use pacman -Syu to upgrage
#
Targets (4): graphite-1:1.2.1-1 harfbuzz-0.9.9-3 ttf-dejavu-2.33-4 chromium-25.0.1364.160-1
however when running chromium after this (successful) update I got:
$ chromium
/usr/lib/chromium/chromium: error while loading shared libraries: libicule.so.50: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
What worked for me was to run "pacman -S icu". This installed icu-50.1.2-1 which allowed chromium 25 to run properly.
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