upgrade pacman2 to pacman3 [solved]

timm · 2009-09-13 19:56:57

I have an old box that has been chugging away in the corner and has not been updated in a long time. Today I needed to install another program, but of course pacman is so out of date it kept flinging errors.

I found a post about manually downloading pacman using wget, followed those instructions and got things looking good until I tried to run a pacman -Syu

I now get the error:

pacman : /lib/libc.so.6: version 'GLIBC_2.7' not found (required by /usr/lib/libfetch.so)

I can download glibc (now at 2.10), but when I go to install it with pacman -U I get the same error. In fact, all pacman commands give the error message. Seems I have worked myself into some kind of loop.

How do I finish getting pacman up and running?

Last edited by timm (2009-11-14 21:36:00)

flamelab · 2009-09-13 20:05:55

Download the glibc package, move it to "/" and untar it. And try again.

timm · 2009-09-13 20:15:27

Ran across this thread:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=79422

with this tar command:

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

Is that the correct way to get everything where it belongs? (of course, using the glibc package instead) Does doing a simple tar from / do the same thing? Is one better practice?

Last edited by timm (2009-09-13 20:42:01)

shining · 2009-09-17 08:25:54

Yes, it should do the same thing.

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#1 2009-09-13 19:56:57

upgrade pacman2 to pacman3 [solved]

#2 2009-09-13 20:05:55

Re: upgrade pacman2 to pacman3 [solved]

#3 2009-09-13 20:15:27

Re: upgrade pacman2 to pacman3 [solved]

#4 2009-09-17 08:25:54

Re: upgrade pacman2 to pacman3 [solved]

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