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mcloaked

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From: Yorkshire, UK

Registered: 2012-02-02

Posts: 1,347

[SOLVED] Checkrebuild flags non-existent packages

I noticed in the last day or so that running checkrebuild on my systems I get

$ checkrebuild
foreign python-pyqt5-webengine
foreign qt5-webengine

but when I checked none of those packages exist on the repos or on my system. 

If I add -v then

$ checkrebuild -v
foreign python-pyqt5-webengine
foreign qt5-webengine

/usr/lib/python3.13/ is owned by python-pyqt5-webengine 5.15.7-2

ldd /usr/lib/qt/qml/QtWebEngine/libqtwebengineplugin.so

        libicui18n.so.76 => not found
        libicuuc.so.76 => not found

ldd /usr/lib/qt/plugins/designer/libqwebengineview.so

        libicui18n.so.76 => not found
        libicuuc.so.76 => not found

ldd /usr/lib/qt/libexec/QtWebEngineProcess

        libicui18n.so.76 => not found
        libicuuc.so.76 => not found

ldd /usr/lib/libQt5WebEngineCore.so.5.15.19

        libicui18n.so.76 => not found
        libicuuc.so.76 => not found

ldd /usr/lib/libQt5WebEngineWidgets.so.5.15.19

        libicui18n.so.76 => not found
        libicuuc.so.76 => not found

ldd /usr/lib/libQt5WebEngine.so.5.15.19

        libicui18n.so.76 => not found
        libicuuc.so.76 => not found

ldd /usr/bin/qwebengine_convert_dict

        libicui18n.so.76 => not found
        libicuuc.so.76 => not found

So I was not sure if there are files in my system that were left from packages that were removed with pacman -R at some point, or may be referenced by current packages that do need a rebuild?

Can someone tell me if this is something that needs an action to fix or if it is benign and needs nothing to be done? This only flags up on one machine - on the others the same packages are not flagged - so presume I have some stale files in the system - but I am not sure how to clean it up.

Last edited by mcloaked (2026-01-30 11:06:06)

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Mike C

arojas

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From: Spain

Registered: 2011-10-09

Posts: 2,275

Re: [SOLVED] Checkrebuild flags non-existent packages

How did you check that those packages do not exist on your system?

mcloaked

Member

From: Yorkshire, UK

Registered: 2012-02-02

Posts: 1,347

Re: [SOLVED] Checkrebuild flags non-existent packages

It was my mistake - I had checked with pacman -Ss - which didn't flag up that I actually did have those installed! When I ran with pacman -Q it did show those orphaned packages were still in my system.

$ pacman -Ss python-pyqt5-webengine
$ pacman -Q python-pyqt5-webengine
python-pyqt5-webengine 5.15.7-2

So once pacman -R on the flagged packages removed them then checkrebuild now shows clean - so it was entirely my bad. Sorry for the noise.

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Mike C