[arch-general] libreadline.so issues

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Tue Jul 14 04:56:48 EDT 2009


bardo wrote:
> 2009/7/14 Vincent Van Houtte <vvh at synergylaw.be>:
>   
>> I had the same problem after installing firefox without updating the whole
>> system. Only core, extra, community in use - no testing...
>>     
>
> Your mirror probably synced while the move was in progress, this is
> called bad luck ;) Anyway, selective upgrades are known to break the
> system, and this has been underlined recently, specifically related to
> this move.
>   

Nope - he went "pacman -Sy firefox" which pulled in new libraries (due 
to versioned deps) but did not pull in all the other packages that were 
needed.  "pacman -Syu" is the only good way to do a "pacman -Sy"...

Allan





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