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#1 2017-11-19 01:38:39

lukewink
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Registered: 2016-07-17
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Pacman symbol lookup error

I was attempting to get a program to run which required newer versions of libicuuc.so so I ran:
pacman -S icu

This updated libicu from version 59 to version 60.  Then the next time I attempted to run Pacman I got the error:
"pacman: error while loading shared libraries: libicuuc.so.59: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

Oops, Pacman depends on libicu and I updated the library without updating pacman.  Now I can't run pacman to update itself sad

So I need to either manually update pacman to the latest version, or downgrade icu back to version 59.  I am not sure how to do either one of these things without being able to run pacman.

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#2 2017-11-19 01:58:36

2ManyDogs
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Re: Pacman symbol lookup error

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … an_upgrade

Last edited by 2ManyDogs (2017-11-19 02:01:44)


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#3 2017-11-19 02:39:26

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Re: Pacman symbol lookup error

lukewink wrote:

I was attempting to get a program to run which required newer versions of libicuuc.so so I ran:
pacman -S icu

This updated libicu from version 59 to version 60.

It should only do this if you previously updated the database without updating the system. In that case, you did a partial upgrade, which is unsupported and expected to break.


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#4 2017-11-19 02:46:04

Scimmia
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Re: Pacman symbol lookup error

Boot the install disk and use pacman's --root option to update the entire system.

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#5 2017-11-19 07:29:43

lukewink
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Re: Pacman symbol lookup error

Scimmia wrote:

Boot the install disk and use pacman's --root option to update the entire system.

Thanks, this fixed the issue.

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#6 2017-11-19 13:41:36

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Re: Pacman symbol lookup error

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