Say no to updating pacman first and read the news. If you choose to reinstall use the net iso or core-remote it will install only up to date packages, do not use the core iso's cache. On Jul 7, 2012 9:27 PM, "Damjan" <gdamjan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Allan pushed glib 2.16-2 into [testing] which removes /lib as a >> directory, replacing it with a symlink. A bit of advice... >> >> - In the simplest case, the upgrade can be done as simply as: >> >> pacman -Syu --ignore glibc && pacman -S glibc >> >> - Since nothing is ever simple, if the above still fails on installation >> of glibc (with a somewhat cryptic "/lib exists" error), >> > > I have an older Arch-testing system in a virtual machine, which I don't > think I can upgrade very easily, since it requires a newer glibc (has > 2.13-5 now) to upgrade a lot of the packages that have files in /lib > > Also it asks me about a pacman update that also can't be done because of a > glibc dependency. > > I wonder if it be possible to upgrade Arch installed from the 2011.08.19 > release? > > > > -- > дамјан > > >
