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Rurisk

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Registered: 2018-02-18

Posts: 5

[Solved] pacman: error while loading shared libraries: libicuuc.so.75:

Hello all,

I have made a pacman -Rdd mistake and I am struggling to get my desktop environment to load on boot, or pacman to function.

It has been a couple of months since I have been able to sit down to update my desktop. When I ran

 pacman -Syu 

on Monday I had dependency errors for packages protobuf, icu and flac...

I made the mistake of quickly looking online and following forum advice blindly. I regret.

Now when I run

 $ sudo pacman -Syu
pacman: error while loading shared libraries: libicuuc.so.75: libicuuc.so.75: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory 

I've attempted to boot into the live environment. From there I have ran

 $ pacman -S icu 

but if I am understanding correctly it has installed a newer version that has been released whilst I have been away with work over the past couple of months. Therefore, I still receive the error

 pacman: error while loading shared libraries: libicuuc.so.75: libicuuc.so.75: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory 

when I run

 $ sudo pacman -Syu 

.

I thought it might be a partial upgrade error, so I looked up the advice on the wiki but when I looked through

 /var/cache/pacman/pkg 

$  ls | grep libicuuc 

I get no output...the package isn't in my cache.

I've also tried to install icu from the AUR, but that errors similar

 bsdtar: error while loading shared libraries: libicuuc.so.75: libicuuc.so.75: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory 

Can anybody point me in the right direction? I think I need to find a way to install icu.75 onto my system to allow pacman to function correctly and properly update.

I really appreciate your time assisting.

Last edited by Rurisk (2025-03-27 16:37:11)

mpan

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Registered: 2012-08-01

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Re: [Solved] pacman: error while loading shared libraries: libicuuc.so.75:

Use pacman-static.

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Rurisk

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Registered: 2018-02-18

Posts: 5

Re: [Solved] pacman: error while loading shared libraries: libicuuc.so.75:

Thank you very much mpan, I simply used wget to download the script, made executable, and ran

 ./pacman-static -Syu 

incase anyone comes across this in future.