I got all the way to here just fine, but after it synced the mirrors, I got this error:
pacman: error while loading shared libraries: libicuuc.so.75: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I found this post with a similar issue. like them, “pacman -Qm” and “pamac list -m” give the same error. I’m not about to try the suggested bandaid fix (temporary link) on a different library because I do not know enough. next post will contain my output of “ldd /usr/bin/pacman”