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almahdi

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Registered: 2021-02-16

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Encountered missing shared library issue

Encountered this weird shared library issue

$ inkscape
inkscape: error while loading shared libraries: libpoppler.so.114: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

$ sudo pacman -F libpoppler.so.114
[sudo] password for budi:
extra/poppler 21.10.0-1 [installed: 21.09.0-1]
    usr/lib/libpoppler.so.114
$

How yo solve such this ?
Please help out

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 12,445

Re: Encountered missing shared library issue

Update your system. Looks like you did a partial update, which is not supported for exactly this reason.

almahdi

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Registered: 2021-02-16

Posts: 23

Re: Encountered missing shared library issue

knew it
but please can one show us the definitive way with great carefull to succesfully upgrade merely the poppler

almost impossible to me as can afford only cheap ISP connection i.e. slow, intermittently, weak, etc, to often download abour hundreds MB

Last edited by almahdi (2021-10-18 16:39:03)

Scimmia

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Re: Encountered missing shared library issue

You don't update only poppler, you'll just break more things. If you're unable to fully update regularly, Arch isn't a good choice.

Trilby

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Re: Encountered missing shared library issue

Often is a relative term.  One can use arch well without frequent updates.  Many of us update on a daily basis, but an arch system will generally be fine if it's updated monthly*.  So you can update frequently, or occasionally, but what you can't do is partial updates: when you are going to update anything, you need to update everything.

* this is also just ballpark.  Updating every 2-3 months is even generally possible, but that's really pushing it and if that'd be the goal, there's not really any point in using a rolling-release distro.

EDIT: sorry, regular != often, and this wasn't to disagree with the above, but to elaborate with some rather arbitrary but reasonable time frames.

Last edited by Trilby (2021-10-19 01:27:49)

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Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: Encountered missing shared library issue

Exactly, Trilby, and that's why I said it needed to be regularly, not necessarily often. It's even possible to use the archive and put off updates while still being able to install new things, but all this does is let the updates pile up making the situation worse and worse. If your ISP is bad enough that you can never do a full update, Arch is a really bad choice.