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highway

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Registered: 2012-07-28

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[Solved] Question about the latest news (libutf8proc)

I saw this error when updating, but before I checked my email and saw the news.

I read another forum post for a similar error with a different package, that instructed to 'unlink' the package in question instead of overwriting it.

I did that instead of overwriting it for libutf8proc.so.2 , and later saw the news. Do I need to go back and relink this library some how?

Last edited by highway (2018-07-15 15:53:09)

hoerbert

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Registered: 2013-04-03

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Re: [Solved] Question about the latest news (libutf8proc)

Hey highway,

do I need to go back and relink this library some how?

I'd say: That depends.

What exactly did you do? What does 'unlink a package' even mean?

Before we don't know what you did, we can't give you advice on what to do next.

Greets,

Torben

highway

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Registered: 2012-07-28

Posts: 81

Re: [Solved] Question about the latest news (libutf8proc)

Hey highway,

do I need to go back and relink this library some how?

I'd say: That depends.

What exactly did you do? What does 'unlink a package' even mean?

Before we don't know what you did, we can't give you advice on what to do next.

Greets,

Torben

Thanks for the input, looking closer, it seems that unlink deletes a single file name, in my case it was /usr/lib/libutf8proc.so.2

https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ … ation.html

I guess if that file was removed, and then reinstalled with the update, that would be the same as just having pacman overwrite it via the news instructions.

$ unlink --help
Usage: unlink FILE
  or:  unlink OPTION
Call the unlink function to remove the specified FILE.

      --help     display this help and exit
      --version  output version information and exit

GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Full documentation at: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/unlink>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) unlink invocation'

hoerbert

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Registered: 2013-04-03

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Re: [Solved] Question about the latest news (libutf8proc)

Well, you still did not give us the full exact command you ran... But if you really just deleted the named file, the outcome after the update should be correct, yes.

highway

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Registered: 2012-07-28

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Re: [Solved] Question about the latest news (libutf8proc)

Well, you still did not give us the full exact command you ran... But if you really just deleted the named file, the outcome after the update should be correct, yes.

I ran:

sudo unlink /usr/lib/libutf8proc.so.2

I will have to be more careful next time, but it looks like in this particular case no harm was done.

Thank you for your help!