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stoutlinked

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Ungoogled Chromium no longer starts after latest update

I use ungoogled chromium based on the AUR. After a recent update, it no longer starts.

> chromium
/usr/lib/chromium/chromium: error while loading shared libraries: libxml2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

libxml2 is already installed on my system and reinstalling it via pacman did not solve the issue. How can I help ungoogled-chromium find libxml2?

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: Ungoogled Chromium no longer starts after latest update

As always, things outside of the repos are your responsibility to rebuild when they need to be. Your current build is linked against an old version of that lib.

WorMzy

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Re: Ungoogled Chromium no longer starts after latest update

Mod note: moving to AUR Issues.

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stoutlinked

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Re: Ungoogled Chromium no longer starts after latest update

As always, things outside of the repos are your responsibility to rebuild when they need to be. Your current build is linked against an old version of that lib.

Thank you for your reply. Does that mean that I have to downgrade libxml2 to match the version Ungoogled Chromium expects?

WorMzy

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Re: Ungoogled Chromium no longer starts after latest update

No, that will break any packages that have already been rebuilt against the new library.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System … nsupported

You should rebuild ungoogled-chromium.

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0strodamus

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Registered: 2014-01-22

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Re: Ungoogled Chromium no longer starts after latest update

I think installing libxml2-2.9 2.9.10-1 should also resolve your issue.

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seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: Ungoogled Chromium no longer starts after latest update

Provides:     libxml2, libxml2.so

DON'T!

https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x8 … l2-legacy/ but the proper (albeit tedious) appraoch is to rebuild chromium.

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