My Pacman is dead :,-[ ... unfortunately its my fault. I think.

youngmit · 2009-09-04 04:26:06

Hey everybody,

I recently ran into some issues with pacman, where whenever I wanted to install a package, pacman would complain about needing to get version 3.3, but it also didnt want to install 3.3 because of dependency conflicts. So I did something that in retrospect was a really bad idea... I tried to update the pacman package with the -f flag, or whatever one forces the upgrade without dependencies. Now whenever I try to run pacman i get the following:

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

Obviously I broke pacman, and I dont knoe how to fix it. Is there anywhere that I can get the source for pacman and just do a make install to fix it, or is there any way to salvage it?

Thanks a lot, and sorry im such an idiot ;-D

Mitch

bangkok_manouel · 2009-09-04 04:39:18

download libfetch from any mirror, here for exemple (link is for i686):
ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/core/os/i686/li … pkg.tar.gz

unpack it:
tar xf libfetch-2.25-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz

as root, manually copy each file to your system e.g.
cp usr/include/fetch.h /usr/include/

do it for all the files, sacrifice a goat and try to run pacman again.

edit: then reinstall libfetch so it'll be in your db again.

edit2: if you don't have a goat, over 9000 hamsters should do it.

Last edited by bangkok_manouel (2009-09-04 04:45:23)

youngmit · 2009-09-04 05:28:11

Thank you very much for your quick reply. I was able to get libfetch installed properly, and the goat sacrifice worked like a charm ;-) However, I m now getting the same error for liblzma.so.0... Any idea where I can get that? it doesnt seem to be in the repo.

Thanks!

Allan · 2009-09-04 05:29:39

xz-utils

Ramses de Norre · 2009-09-04 06:52:34

You can also reinstall the older pacman version and fix the dependency problem preventing you from installing the new pacman, that seems easier to me...

Gen2ly · 2009-09-04 07:34:44

bangkok_manouel wrote:

download libfetch from any mirror, here for exemple (link is for i686):
ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/core/os/i686/li … pkg.tar.gz
unpack it:
tar xf libfetch-2.25-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
...
as root, manually copy each file to your system e.g.
cp usr/include/fetch.h /usr/include/...

Ok, I know it's too late but a direct extract be much simpler:

tar xvf libfetch-2.25-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz -C /

Then remove extraneous package note files

rm /.PKGINFO /.INSTALL

youngmit · 2009-09-05 02:35:57

Ramses de Norre wrote:

You can also reinstall the older pacman version and fix the dependency problem preventing you from installing the new pacman, that seems easier to me...

How do i get my hands on the older version?

Thanks!

ploub · 2009-09-05 06:04:19

You look in the wiki: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dow … er_Version

Last edited by ploub (2009-09-05 06:06:13)

Ramses de Norre · 2009-09-05 09:48:13

youngmit wrote:

Ramses de Norre wrote:
You can also reinstall the older pacman version and fix the dependency problem preventing you from installing the new pacman, that seems easier to me...
How do i get my hands on the older version?
Thanks!

/var/cache/pacman/pkg/

if you didn't clear that out.

Arch Linux

#1 2009-09-04 04:26:06

My Pacman is dead :,-[ ... unfortunately its my fault. I think.

#2 2009-09-04 04:39:18

Re: My Pacman is dead :,-[ ... unfortunately its my fault. I think.

#3 2009-09-04 05:28:11

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#4 2009-09-04 05:29:39

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#5 2009-09-04 06:52:34

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