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Updating causes zathura to stop working

Running zathura on a pdf document returns :

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cannot create context: incompatible header (1.23.11) and library (1.24.0) versions
error: could not open document

I've tried pacman -Syu an pacman -Syyu

zathura -v :

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zathura 0.5.5
girara 0.4.3 (runtime: 0.4.3)
(plugin) pdf-mupdf (0.4.1) (/usr/lib/zathura/libpdf-mupdf.so)

Thank you for your time.

edit : Fixed by downgrading with
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 pacman -U file:///var/cache/pacman/pkg/libmupdf-1.23.11-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Downgrading_packages

Can someone explain why is there one version ahead of the other?

Re: Updating causes zathura to stop working

Reply #1 –
Thank you for sharing the solution, I had the same issue. I imagine that `zathura-pdf-mupdf` might package a different version of mupdf? And for some reason Zathura is picking the system version of mupdf?

Re: Updating causes zathura to stop working

Reply #2 –
@revsuine

This got fixed yesterday evening, if you ran pacman -Syu, the the new version of zathura installed as expected.


A user suggested I use Timeshift for backups in case of problems with upgrades like this or worse.