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#1 2012-01-05 08:05:39

xiliyi
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[solved] pacman broken after "pacman -Syyu" excluding pacman

Hi forums,

I use arch x86_64, yaourt and the testing and multilib repositories.
A full system upgrade doing "yaourt -Syyu" didn't work, because pacman had an unfulfilled dependancy which I don't recall, but it was about a normal and a multilib version: I probably have the multilib version of a library installed, which has not been updated to the version required by pacman yet.
So I thought it would be perfectly fine to exclude pacman from this system upgrade by choosing "manually" from the options given by "yaourt -Syyu" and commented pacman.
The upgrade then went fine except for the two final lines:

package-query: error while loading shared libraries: libarchive.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
testdb: error while loading shared libraries: libarchive.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Now everytime I try to use pacman, I get this error:

pacman: error while loading shared libraries: libarchive.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Do you know how to solve this?
Thanks in advance

xiliyi

Last edited by xiliyi (2012-01-05 09:49:23)

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#2 2012-01-05 08:27:25

Allan
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Re: [solved] pacman broken after "pacman -Syyu" excluding pacman

Lesson - yaourt is arse...   Install pacman from [testing] by manually extracting the tarball.  Then uninstall yaourt and "pacman -Sf pacman"

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#3 2012-01-05 08:34:50

headkase
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Re: [solved] pacman broken after "pacman -Syyu" excluding pacman

Interjection, what would your recommendation be for a package manager that will also track and update AUR packages?  I've been using yaourt just because I can append an "a" after "Syu".  Is there something better than yaourt or would I just be better off manually tracking AUR packages and makepkg the downloads myself?

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#4 2012-01-05 08:54:58

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Re: [solved] pacman broken after "pacman -Syyu" excluding pacman

headkase wrote:

Interjection, what would your recommendation be for a package manager that will also track and update AUR packages?  I've been using yaourt just because I can append an "a" after "Syu".  Is there something better than yaourt or would I just be better off manually tracking AUR packages and makepkg the downloads myself?

Something like cower is better because it doesn't try to pretend that the AUR is just another repo (it isn't), but it does help you check whether there are updates.

Seriously, for the AUR, just use makepkg, less breakage all round.


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#5 2012-01-05 08:56:02

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Re: [solved] pacman broken after "pacman -Syyu" excluding pacman

There's quite a few.  Your best bet would probably be to use something like cower if you want to have automatic downloading/untarring (cower -d target)/updatechecking (cower -u) followed by manual makepkg invocation, or something like pacaur (which uses cower as it's backend) for pacman wrapping like yaourt (or just more automation - if wrapping pacman commands like -Syu, -a restricts it to aur only).

Obviously, I personally recommend cower and pacaur, but there are others - check the AUR Helpers page on the wiki for more choices smile

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#6 2012-01-05 09:04:20

headkase
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Re: [solved] pacman broken after "pacman -Syyu" excluding pacman

Thank you both.  I saw the wiki page previously but without a pointer it's hard to know which one is best - based on experience wink  I went and nuked yaourt, I actually don't have that many AUR packages so I just bookmarked the ones I do have (all three of them) and will manually track them for a bit and see how that goes.  Now, if it get's to be too big a burden then I'll definitely check out cower first!  Thanks again, and off to bookmark cower.. smile

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#7 2012-01-05 09:49:04

xiliyi
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Re: [solved] pacman broken after "pacman -Syyu" excluding pacman

Allan wrote:

Lesson - yaourt is arse...   Install pacman from [testing] by manually extracting the tarball.  Then uninstall yaourt and "pacman -Sf pacman"

Thanks, I did as suggested, and it worked!

ngoonee wrote:

Something like cower is better because it doesn't try to pretend that the AUR is just another repo (it isn't), but it does help you check whether there are updates.

Seriously, for the AUR, just use makepkg, less breakage all round.

I use a lot of software from AUR, and therefore depended on yaourt to help me avoid dependancy breakage. Now that I uninstalled yaourt, I will now look into cower, thank you for your hint.

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#8 2012-01-05 10:31:11

ngoonee
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Re: [solved] pacman broken after "pacman -Syyu" excluding pacman

xiliyi wrote:
ngoonee wrote:

Something like cower is better because it doesn't try to pretend that the AUR is just another repo (it isn't), but it does help you check whether there are updates.

Seriously, for the AUR, just use makepkg, less breakage all round.

I use a lot of software from AUR, and therefore depended on yaourt to help me avoid dependancy breakage. Now that I uninstalled yaourt, I will now look into cower, thank you for your hint.

Actually (even without cower), makepkg will tell you what dependencies are missing when you try and compile an AUR package. In fact, -s will install them for you (unless they're from the AUR, in which case you have to download/makepkg that package first).


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#9 2012-01-05 13:55:52

xiliyi
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Re: [solved] pacman broken after "pacman -Syyu" excluding pacman

ngoonee wrote:

Actually (even without cower), makepkg will tell you what dependencies are missing when you try and compile an AUR package. In fact, -s will install them for you (unless they're from the AUR, in which case you have to download/makepkg that package first).

Actually, I was more concerned about updates for packages from AUR. yaourt would handle AUR packages as if they were in a repository, and update them, solving dependency problems.
Now what I fear is, that if some regular library gets an update, it may not updated on my system in the first place, because pacman only sees that the older version is needed for the AUR software, but is not capable of updating the AUR package (which works with the new library version) automatically. So updates will break some software unless I remove it first and install the latest version manually.

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#10 2012-01-19 20:35:51

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Re: [solved] pacman broken after "pacman -Syyu" excluding pacman

At 19:21 UTC, trazalca reported:

Hi all, i did all but when recover pacman the terminal gave me this error:
var/lib/pacman/
pacman: error while loading shared libraries: libgpgme.so.11: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
what i can do for this?? Thanks a lot

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#11 2012-01-19 20:44:43

karol
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Re: [solved] pacman broken after "pacman -Syyu" excluding pacman

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#12 2012-01-20 17:55:55

rocknrolf77
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Re: [solved] pacman broken after "pacman -Syyu" excluding pacman

Messed up pacman too. Sorry for stupid question. Where do I untar pacman? (The second post)

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#13 2012-01-20 18:01:27

karol
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Re: [solved] pacman broken after "pacman -Syyu" excluding pacman

You have to run

sudo tar -xvpf pacman -C / --exclude .PKGINFO --exclude .INSTALL

but you may need to untar its dependencies first (the same way).

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