[arch-general] pacman -S xfce4-goodies fail

[C Anthony Risinger]

damn.  nice "wild guess" :-)

C Anthony [mobile]
On Feb 2, 2011 12:19 AM, "Allan McRae" <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> On 02/02/11 16:10, doherty pete wrote:
>> yes,i have the problem about liblzma
>> pacman: error while loading shared libraries: liblzma.so.0: cannot open
>> shared object file: No such file or directory
>>
>> sudo tar -xvpf /var/cache/pacman/pkg/xz*.gz -C / --exclude .PKGINFO
>> --exclude .INSTALL
>>
>> sudo ln -s /usr/lib/liblzma.so /usr/lib/liblzma.so.0
>>
>>
>> so i need
>>
>> sudo ln -s /usr/lib/liblzma.so.0 /usr/lib/liblzma.so.5 ?
>
>
> Never symlink libraries... As you have discovered, it causes lots of
> issues that are hard to diagnose.
>
> "pacman -S pacman libarchive xz"
>
> should be enough to fix your problem. Afterwards, remove that symlink
> you make to /usr/lib/liblzma.so.0 and do a full system update.
>
> Allan