Ark(archiving tool) will not start

[Cing]

The ark (archiving tool) will not start and i cannot extract zips using the tool.
I have searched online if anybody had the same problem but couldnt find any examples.

If i try to start ark via the terminal with:
$ ark

I get the following error:

ark: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libkerfuffle.so.20: undefined symbol: _ZN15KPluginMetaData16staticMetaObjectE

I have tried to search what the libkerfuffle is and tried to reinstall it but i couldnt find any info over. Apart that it is used by the ark package.

Does somebody might know where this error comes from. And how i can solve it?
Thanks in advance.

[pobrn]

Did you do a full-upgrade (sudo pacman -Syu)?

[Cing]

No, I did it a some time ago. But after the full update my manjaro wouldnt boot anymore. So I had to use timeshift to rollback. I could try it again to see if they fixed it in the meantime.

Could this be related to ark?

[pobrn]

A partial upgrade might result in a program trying to use a shared library which it was not compiled with, and that could result in errors like the one you see.

[Cing]

Ah oke. Shouldn’t this be prevented by depenceny checks? Or can this still sometimes happen?

[pobrn]

Most packages don’t specify the required version of their dependencies.