Pacman and libarchive error[SOLVED]

kaola_linux · 2009-02-08 01:25:43

Hi, I was having problems with my netbook...All of a sudden, pacman doesn't work anymore...I can't install or update...It's unusable..
Here's what I get when I do something with pacman:

pacman: error while loading shared libraries: libarchive.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

From what I've read on similar posts, it was said to use .static so I've tried it but unfortunately it did not work as well:

#pacman.static -S libarchive
bash: pacman.static

Any ideas? Thanks in advance

Last edited by kaola_linux (2009-02-08 02:08:00)

skottish · 2009-02-08 01:30:33

It looks like you have a slightly older version of either libarchive or pacman installed on your system. The current so is at 2.6.1. Anyway, download a copy of libarchive from some mirror and force install it. By force install I mean to manually decompress the package, and install it into the directories that it's supposed to go in. Immediately afterwards reinstall libarchive through pacman with the -f switch, then run pacman -Suy.

kaola_linux · 2009-02-08 01:51:14

I have the latest package on my cache...How do I install it? It still gives me error when I do

#pacman -Uf /path/to/libarchive

Ok, so I haven't get what you've said...:) I went to the directory of my cache and looked for libarchive, afterwards I extracted it...Now i have a folder created "usr" with the ff. folders:

bin
include
lib
share

What will I do with them?:/

Last edited by kaola_linux (2009-02-08 02:00:15)

skottish · 2009-02-08 01:59:45

Copy the package to somewhere that you have write permissions. Unpack the archive. You can use:

bsdtar -x -f <package_name>

Copy the usr folder of the extracted archive over /usr in the file system as root:

mv usr /usr

Reinstall libarchive with pacman, using the -f switch if necessary. The run pacman -Suy.

kaola_linux · 2009-02-08 02:07:35

Wow!:D That was fairly simple...thanks alot skottish...:)

skottish · 2009-02-08 02:08:24

You're welcome. Just make sure that you reinstall libarchive then update your system after. This is a very important step.

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#1 2009-02-08 01:25:43

Pacman and libarchive error[SOLVED]

#2 2009-02-08 01:30:33

Re: Pacman and libarchive error[SOLVED]

#3 2009-02-08 01:51:14

Re: Pacman and libarchive error[SOLVED]

#4 2009-02-08 01:59:45

Re: Pacman and libarchive error[SOLVED]

#5 2009-02-08 02:07:35

Re: Pacman and libarchive error[SOLVED]

#6 2009-02-08 02:08:24

Re: Pacman and libarchive error[SOLVED]

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