damn. nice "wild guess" :-) C Anthony [mobile] On Feb 2, 2011 12:19 AM, "Allan McRae" <allan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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