I broke something (libreadline.so.5)

Dethredic · 2009-07-04 16:10:47

So, I jut tried to install firefox 3.5 and I got some errors saying some files already existed. I decided to force the installation. After that xterm wasn't working so I rebooted.

I get this error:
/bin/bash:error while loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.5 can't open shared object file: No such file or directory

Needless to say I can't boot (I do have some live cd's).

Any help would be great.

arkham · 2009-07-04 16:14:24

Use the search function.

In short:
1) Boot an Arch live
2) Mount your arch partition on /mnt
3) Run pacman -r /mnt -Syu

Andru · 2009-07-04 18:54:22

Dethredic

sudo pacman -S bash

arkham · 2009-07-04 20:18:54

Andru wrote:

Dethredic
sudo pacman -S bash

He can't access to bash, so how can he launch that command?

lolilolicon · 2009-07-04 23:38:32

arkham wrote:

Use the search function.
In short:
1) Boot an Arch live
2) Mount your arch partition on /mnt
3) Run pacman -r /mnt -Syu

Quick question arkham, can I install arch on an empty drive mounted on /mnt with "pacman -r /mnt -Syu" from a live CD?

arkham · 2009-07-05 00:29:52

lolilolicon wrote:

Quick question arkham, can I install arch on an empty drive mounted on /mnt with "pacman -r /mnt -Syu" from a live CD?

No, you can't: this operation is useful only when for some reasons you can't access to your machine anymore; if you want to install arch on an empty drive, use /arch/setup

lolilolicon · 2009-07-05 02:18:17

I thought so... would be nice if pacman could haldle this all alone tho

Thanks for your quick answer, arkham.

Andru · 2009-07-05 23:19:17

arkham

He can't access to bash, so how can he launch that command?

When I got the same error, my gnome-terminal stay work, and command worked.

arkham · 2009-07-05 23:29:18

Andru wrote:

arkham
He can't access to bash, so how can he launch that command?
When I got the same error, my gnome-terminal stay work, and command worked.

Dethredic wrote:

So, I jut tried to install firefox 3.5 and I got some errors saying some files already existed. I decided to force the installation. After that xterm wasn't working so I rebooted.

Mr.Elendig · 2009-07-06 12:17:57

lolilolicon wrote:

arkham wrote:
Use the search function.
In short:
1) Boot an Arch live
2) Mount your arch partition on /mnt
3) Run pacman -r /mnt -Syu
Quick question arkham, can I install arch on an empty drive mounted on /mnt with "pacman -r /mnt -Syu" from a live CD?

pacman -r /mnt -Sy base whatever extra packages you want

After that, you have to edit _all_ the config files yourself, since nothing will be autoconfigured.

Arch.Ben · 2009-07-23 23:13:32

is this something that can be fixed before you get the error?

Allan · 2009-07-23 23:16:15

Arch.Ben wrote:

is this something that can be fixed before you get the error?

Yes. "pacman -Syu" and not e.g "pacman -Sy firefox". Never update individual packages unless you know what you are doing.

.:B:. · 2009-07-23 23:28:27

lolilolicon wrote:

I thought so... would be nice if pacman could haldle this all alone tho
Thanks for your quick answer, arkham.

There's a bit more to performing an installation than just dumping packages onto a disk. You might want to brush up on your knowledge .

Arch.Ben · 2009-07-24 00:19:57

Allan wrote:

Arch.Ben wrote:
is this something that can be fixed before you get the error?
Yes. "pacman -Syu" and not e.g "pacman -Sy firefox". Never update individual packages unless you know what you are doing.

Ok i did this and somewere it failed and now i can not get any packages...

windtalker · 2009-07-24 05:04:23

Arch.Ben wrote:

Allan wrote:
Arch.Ben wrote:
is this something that can be fixed before you get the error?
Yes. "pacman -Syu" and not e.g "pacman -Sy firefox". Never update individual packages unless you know what you are doing.
Ok i did this and somewere it failed and now i can not get any packages...

Didn't you just do a full reinstall?
If so, there may not be an packages that need updating:

bash-4.0# pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
kdemod-legacy is up to date
archlinuxfr is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
local database is up to date < < <

Arch.Ben · 2009-07-24 07:30:18

Didn't you just do a full reinstall?
If so, there may not be an packages that need updating:
bash-4.0# pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
kdemod-legacy is up to date
archlinuxfr is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
local database is up to date < < <

Then why would i continue to get this error?

windtalker · 2009-07-24 14:51:27

If you're getting the same error as the original poster, the fix has been mentioned above.
You're information to us is scant so if you're still having problems different than the ones on your other thread, we need to know what the problems are,,,, specifically.

.:B:. · 2009-07-24 16:36:36

There's been enough lenience, show you're a worthy Arch user, and use that search function.

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