Some executables are broken because of wrong library versions

[Puckla]

After updating from the testing branch on ARM recently some executables coud not be run because some libraries (.so) could not be found:

file path	package name	package version	missing libraries	installed libraries
/usr/bin/flatpak	flatpak	1:1.16.1-1	libgpgme.so.11	libgpgme.so.45
/usr/bin/pacman	pacman	7.0.0.r10.ga2d0293-2	libgpgme.so.11	libgpgme.so.45
/usr/lib/chromium/chromium	chromium	131.0.6778.264-1	libicui18n.so.75, libicuuc.so.75, libFLAC.so.12, libxml2.so.2	libicui18n.so.76, libicuuc.so.76, libFLAC.so.14, libxml2.so.16

The missing libraries are from the packages gpgme, icu, flac and libxml2. There are more broken executables mostly due to gpgme, but these are the most prevelant ones.

[linux-aarhus]

Currently the only maintained branch for ARM is unstable branch.

You will need to ensure a full system sync and possibly a complete restart.

[ARM Unstable Update] 2025-06-04 - Linux, Firefox, Pipewire, Thunderbird

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[Darksky]

Chromium has been broken for months. Last update was in January. I use the flatpak version.

[Puckla]

Okay, I switched to the unstable branch using

sudo pacman-mirrors --api --set-branch unstable
sudo pacman -Syyu

which was very problematic because the pacman-mirrors package was outdated and still used a python3.12 library, therefore I had to clone the PKGBUILD from the manjaro gitlab and build the newest version.

After the switch there are still some broken executables:

file path	package name	package version	missing libraries	installed libraries
/usr/bin/volume_key	volume_key	0.3.12-11	libgpgme.so.11	libgpgme.so.45
/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/gpg/_gpgme.cpython-313-aarch64-linux-gnu.so	python-gpgme	2-3	libgpgme.so.11	libgpgme.so.45
/usr/lib/chromium/chromium	chromium	131.0.6778.264-1	libicui18n.so.75, libicuuc.so.75, libFLAC.so.12, libxml2.so.2	libicui18n.so.76 , libicuuc.so.76 , libFLAC.so.14 , libxml2.so.16
/usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/kfilemetadata/kfilemetadata_ffmpegextractor.so	kfilemetadata5	5.115.0-1	libavformat.so.60, libavutil.so.58	libavformat.so.61, libavformat.so.58, libavutil.so.56, libavutil.so.59
/usr/lib/samba/ldb/password_hash.so	ldb	2:4.22.2-1	libgpgme.so.11	libgpgme.so.45
/usr/lib/libbd_crypto.so.3.0.0	libblockdev-crypto	3.3.1-1	libgpgme.so.11	libgpgme.so.45

@Darksky

Chromium has been broken for months. Last update was in January. I use the flatpak version.

Good to know. I am currently using the ungoogled-chromium flatpak, but to use Spotify, Disney+ and such I had to install widevine which was not possible for the flatpak. Is it possible now to use these services in the flatpak? Would a rebuild of the chromium package fix it? What exactly is the problem? The package is also broken on archlinuxarm.

[Darksky]

There is issues with the latest update mostly involving gpgme. Some of your issues will probably be solved with the volume_key package provided here. Maybe some other of your issues may be covered in this Unstable Update Thread also. There may be a couple of other packages users have provided also.

https://forum.manjaro.org/t/arm-unstable-update-2025-06-04-linux-firefox-pipewire-thunderbird/178595/34

We are still waiting for arch-arm to bring some things up to speed in that thread.

Some one built Chromium a couple of times in this thread.

https://forum.manjaro.org/t/chromium-does-not-run-after-latest-unstable-update/175004

And here also.

https://archlinuxarm.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=17210