On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan <nilesh@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > On 01/02/2011 01:35 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > > On 01/02/2011 01:20 PM, Madhurya Kakati wrote: > >> I was wondering if theres anyway to to install a package in such a way > >> that > >> pacman over writes all the files. I tries pacman -Sf xz but it didn't > >> help. > >> > > > > A quick solution to your problem is remove /usr/local/bin/xz and create > > a symlink to liblzma.so.0 in /usr/lib > > > > cd /usr/lib > > ln -s liblzma.so liblzma.so.0 > > > > *NOTE: This is not the fix, it's a hack.* > > > > Hey wait a minute, does /usr/bin/xz exist? > If it is existing, try running /usr/bin/xz with full path. > It must work. > In that case, no symlinks etc is required, remove /usr/local/bin/xz. > > > -- > Regards, > Nilesh Govindarajan > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr > Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr > Website: http://www.itech7.com > VPS Hosting: http://www.itech7.com/a/vps > yes /usr/bin/xz does exist. the problem is that i once messed up xz and had to force remove it from the system and install it manually via compiling. i didn't set -prefix=usr back then and it got installed to /usr/local/. and i guess thats what causing all this
