Destroyed pacman with update to 4.0

exterm · 2012-01-16 22:27:26

Hey everybody,

I was dumb enough to install pacman 4.0 with --force because i had a conflicting aur package installed. Apparently my mirror wasn't fully synched.

Now I can't start pacman because apparently I don't have libarchive.so.12 .

I could get libarchive.so.12 from somewhere an just copy it where it belongs, but I don't know wether that's the only problem.

Any ideas?

Last edited by exterm (2012-01-16 22:29:55)

karol · 2012-01-16 22:38:46

libarchive.so.12 is in libarchive from [core]
Download the package and extract it to /usr/lib/libarchive.so.12

Last edited by karol (2012-01-16 22:40:53)

willy9 · 2012-01-16 22:41:28

Not for the same reasons (upgraded libarchive but not pacman), but I had a similar issue. This allowed fixing it :

Last edited by willy9 (2012-01-16 22:41:57)

karol · 2012-01-16 22:47:07

Mr.Elendig's post was a general way of getting your system back to a consistent state.
The wiki is fine too of course :-)

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