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Yesterday's update broke Thunderbird

[probook sullivad]# thunderbird
XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxul.so:
libicui18n.so.59: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Couldn't load XPCOM.

Downgrading libicui will also wipe out a large number of programs upgrade yesterday, as well.  Suggestions?

Re: Yesterday's update broke Thunderbird

Reply #1 –
You're not alone...

Quote from: artoo – on
The solution to icu broke Thunderbird or other such packages, enable arch testing repo, thundertbird comes from arch, and their rebuild is not in stable yet.

https://www.archlinux.org/packages/testing/x86_64/thunderbird/

You can also get for example thunderbird directly from url.

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pacman -U http://mirror.f4st.host/archlinux/testing/os/x86_64/thunderbird-52.4.0-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

I grabbed the updated thunderbird, as well as couple of other packages, using the pacman command.
This was easier for me than enabling testing.

Re: Yesterday's update broke Thunderbird

Reply #2 –
Thanks.  Updated Thunderbird works fine.

Re: Yesterday's update broke Thunderbird

Reply #4 –
Unsure how to "mark" thread.

In the meantime, Libre Office is also borked.  Will attempt a similar solution.

Re: Yesterday's update broke Thunderbird

Reply #5 –
Quote from: sullivad – on
Unsure how to "mark" thread.

In the meantime, Libre Office is also borked.  Will attempt a similar solution.
Me too. I just hadn't tried it yet until you pointed it out. Grrr.....
 

Re: Yesterday's update broke Thunderbird

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Quote from: scottfurry – on
Me too. I just hadn't tried it yet until you pointed it out. Grrr.....

Icu has historically broken stuff on arch for me too. My browser and office primarily.

Anyway for libreoffice-fresh
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pacman -U https://archlinux.mirror.pkern.at/testing/os/x86_64/libreoffice-fresh-5.4.3-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

And for libreoffice-still
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pacman -U https://archlinux.mirror.pkern.at/testing/os/x86_64/libreoffice-still-5.3.7-6-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

I reckon these will be added to extra or world repos soon.