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MrTomato

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Registered: 2023-04-15

Posts: 7

[SOLVED] How to downgrade when neither yay, pacman or makepkg works?

Yesterday I updated my system, it wanted to upgrade the icu pakage to 75.1..., and I did.
After the upgrade my system dosen't work most programs won't run and give the same error:
`packagename: error while loading shared libraries: libicuuc.so.75: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory`

When I try to downgrade icu with either yay or pacman I get the same error and even when I try to run makepkg i get the same error but it's bsdtar that throws it.
Is there anyway to save my system or is a clean installation the only option left?

There is no other output or error, when I try to run pacman or yay or other programs.

Last edited by MrTomato (2024-05-21 15:23:50)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: [SOLVED] How to downgrade when neither yay, pacman or makepkg works?

Don't downgrade icu. This happened because you *didn't* update icu, as libicuuc.so.75 is the current version. You need to use one of the methods described in https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman … ing_pacman to fully update the system, including icu.

MrTomato

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Registered: 2023-04-15

Posts: 7

Re: [SOLVED] How to downgrade when neither yay, pacman or makepkg works?

Thanks, that saved me!