[solved] How is one supposed to upgrade pacman?

Just upgraded pacman to v4 and got a problem with libarchive.so.12 missing. So tried the other way round (upgraded libarchive first) but then pacman complained about libarchive.so.2. So no matter what I did, I ended up with a broken pacman...
What is the correct way to upgrade pacman?
Regards,
BTJ
Last edited by bjorntj (2012-01-20 08:57:38)

bjorntj wrote:Just upgraded pacman to v4 and got a problem with libarchive.so.12 missing. So tried the other way round (upgraded libarchive first) but then pacman complained about libarchive.so.2. So no matter what I did, I ended up with a broken pacman...
What is the correct way to upgrade pacman?
I made the stupid move to pacman -Sd pacman.
Now i have a broken pacman too. I saw the solution how to upgrade pacman properly but now it's too late.
I tried downgrade pacman to 3.5 but i have this output every time:
sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/pacman-3.5.4-4-i686.pkg.tar.gz
pacman: error while loading shared libraries: libarchive.so.12: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Please help . How did you managed to recover pacman and then upgrade it again ?

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