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rafaellancas

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Registered: 2022-05-31

Posts: 86

[SOLVED] PCSX2 won't open after upgrade

I ran a "sudo pacman -Syu" yesterday and, since then, PCSX2 not just won't open, but it's like it ceased to exist on the system. If I look for it, it's there, but terminal refuses to find it. What should I do? I'm on KDE-Plasma, with x11 (wayland is too buggy in its current state). This is my terminal when I try to open it through terminal (through GUI the system just ignores it):

[rafael@pc ~]$ pcsx2 
bash: pcsx2: command not found
[rafael@pc ~]$ 

I'm also experiencing a bug when I try to update things, with pacman or with yay, so I'm going to put both here:

[sudo] password for rafael: 
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
 multilib-testing is up to date
 multilib is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
warning: cannot resolve "libcap=2.65", a dependency of "lib32-libcap"
:: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies:
      lib32-libcap

:: Do you want to skip the above package for this upgrade? [y/N] 

I think that PCSX2 refusing to open may have something to do with this lib32-libcap bug perhaps?

Thanks in advance!

Last edited by rafaellancas (2022-07-22 02:13:04)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,263

Re: [SOLVED] PCSX2 won't open after upgrade

You should not have multilib-testing enabled without having the other testing repos enabled. Disable/comment multilib-testing from your /etc/pacman.conf and run

pacman -Syuu

rafaellancas

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Registered: 2022-05-31

Posts: 86

Re: [SOLVED] PCSX2 won't open after upgrade

You should not have multilib-testing enabled without having the other testing repos enabled. Disable/comment multilib-testing from your /etc/pacman.conf and run

pacman -Syuu

Thank you! That solved de lib32 bug, but PCSX2 won't open and is still not recognized by terminal, even after I tried to resintall it a million times, unfortunately.

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,729

Re: [SOLVED] PCSX2 won't open after upgrade

Because there's no binary with that name. Don't just assume you know the commands to run. Look them up with pacman -Ql <package>, or on the arch website.

rafaellancas

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Registered: 2022-05-31

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Re: [SOLVED] PCSX2 won't open after upgrade

Because there's no binary with that name. Don't just assume you know the commands to run. Look them up with pacman -Ql <package>, or on the arch website.

Well, it used to open just fine last week. Idk, but it doesn't sound like they would just change the name of the binary from one week to the other, but ok, I'll try the "pacman -QI pcsx2".
Ok, just got myself a new pacman bug:

[rafael@pc ~]$ sudo pacman -QI pcsx2
[sudo] password for rafael: 
pacman: invalid option -- 'I'
[rafael@pc ~]$ 

Thanks, anyway.

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: [SOLVED] PCSX2 won't open after upgrade

man pacman

nl6720

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Registered: 2016-07-02

Posts: 714

Re: [SOLVED] PCSX2 won't open after upgrade

The pcsx2 package is currently broken. See FS#75334 and FS#75335.

rafaellancas

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Registered: 2022-05-31

Posts: 86

Re: [SOLVED] PCSX2 won't open after upgrade

man pacman

Thank you! You were right all along, I was using the wrong command, it's pacman -Ql and not pacman -QI. And they actually changed it, the binary is pcsx2-qt now.

rafaellancas

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Registered: 2022-05-31

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Re: [SOLVED] PCSX2 won't open after upgrade

The pcsx2 package is currently broken. See FS#75334 and FS#75335.

Too bad. Thank you.

macoy_abz

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Registered: 2022-07-21

Posts: 1

Re: [SOLVED] PCSX2 won't open after upgrade

I had the same problem and the solution was to downgrade the package to version 1.7.2678-2.

pacman -U https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/p/pcsx2/pcsx2-1.7.2678-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

source

after that I just changed the

pacman.conf

file to ignore this package in future updates.

Another solution is to just use the appimage.

rafaellancas

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Registered: 2022-05-31

Posts: 86

Re: [SOLVED] PCSX2 won't open after upgrade

I had the same problem and the solution was to downgrade the package to version 1.7.2678-2.

pacman -U https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/p/pcsx2/pcsx2-1.7.2678-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

source

after that I just changed the

pacman.conf

file to ignore this package in future updates.

Another solution is to just use the appimage.

That did the trick! Thank you so much!

Arch rules!

ien

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Registered: 2014-08-06

Posts: 16

Re: [SOLVED] PCSX2 won't open after upgrade

Do you still have your game saves?
I'm not sure what happened, but pcsx2 was not found, so I started pcsx2-qt and gran turismo 4.
The game did not find GT4 save data, so I stopped emulator and searched for *.ps2,
I had 2 config locations, one was PCSX2 and other pcsx2, so I copied memory card files from one that was not used right now. (Mistake, should have made backup)
And that was also empty. :)