Something about missing libxml2.so.2

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Latest version of libxml2 borked my system, something about missing libxml2.so.2 and that causing my display/graphic to be corrupted.

Anyone else experiencing the same? I can only use tty for now

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Note that I moved your reply from the Unstable Updates thread to it’s own topic.

The only people who have experienced what you have that I’ve seen have been in an unsupported, partial upgrade state. Make sure your mirror list is current and perform an update. See Pacman-mirrors - Manjaro.

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It is unlikely that libxml2 borked your system. The package was updated recently in the unstable branch to 2.14.2. Certain packages or AUR packages may still need the older version (2.13.8), Nordvpn.bin (AUR) required a workaround in the PKGBUILD to accommodate the missing file.
The Arch packagers have released a libxml2-legacy package. That may be an option:
https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/libxml2-legacy/

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I also have issues with libxml2 even though I believe my system is up-to-date, including mirror list.

$ sudo pacman-mirrors --fasttrack && sudo pacman -Syu
...
$ php -v
php: error while loading shared libraries: libxml2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
$ yay -S libxml2-legacy
 -> No AUR package found for libxml2-legacy
 there is nothing to do

Also did a system restart between refreshing mirrors and the other commands.

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This package is not in the AUR. It is in the official Arch repositories. It can be downloaded from the website listed in my earlier post (download from mirror) or from any synced Arch repository (extra) e.g. Index of /pub/archlinux/extra/os/x86_64

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This worked for me. Thanks!

$ wget https://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/archlinux/extra/os/x86_64/libxml2-legacy-2.13.8-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
...
$ sudo pacman -U libxml2-legacy-2.13.8-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
$ php -v
PHP 8.3.14

(fyi: currently using php83 instead of php, therefore it doesn’t show PHP 8.4 here)

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This is an AUR package, it needs to be rebuilt.

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It’s also marked out-of-date.

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I am well aware, and that would’ve been my first try if php83 didn’t have its own problems. One PHP 8.3 module I need currently depends on php81, which is obviously not correct.

I’ll investigate what I can do myself to either contribute to keeping these packages up-to date, or to work around these issues, but that’s a bit too much off-topic for this thread.