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@Muflone: I owe you an apology. I had not linked the earlier exchange between you and ChHsich to my issue. My bad. All fixed now. Thank you.

@cbhihe your issues with libxml2-legacy have nothing to do with this package, which still builds fine and works fine (except for the printing)

both libxml2 and libxml2-legacy can be installed at the same time. your existing file issue is related to having touched such file in /usr/lib with changes not tracked by pacman. read also my previous comments where I was discouraging to use ln

Is this package dead ? (it's been a month.)

Hi @Muflone, I have an issue after updating my cloned repo of foxitreader 2.4.5.0727 with the latest versions of .SRCINFO and PKGBUILD

/var/builds/foxitreader (master)\> git pull                                                       
remote: Enumerating objects: 7, done.                                                                                  
remote: Counting objects: 100% (7/7), done.                                                                            
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done.                                                                         
remote: Total 4 (delta 2), reused 2 (delta 0), pack-reused 0 (from 0)                                                  
Unpacking objects: 100% (4/4), 570 bytes | 285.00 KiB/s, done.                                                         
From https://aur.archlinux.org/foxitreader                                                                             
   d8a93ec..31a1258  master     -> origin/master                                                                       Updating d8a93ec..31a1258                                                                                              
Fast-forward                                                                                                           
 .SRCINFO | 6 ++++--                                                                                                   
 PKGBUILD | 7 ++++---                                                                                                  
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

followed by > makepkg -sric which when resolving dependencies tries to install extra/libxml2-legacy, version 2.13.9-2, only for it to enter in a conflict with already installed /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2:

:: Retrieving packages...
 libxml2-legacy-2.13.9-2-x86_64             600.8 KiB   167 KiB/s 00:04 [########################################] 100%
(1/1) checking keys in keyring                                          [########################################] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity                                        [########################################] 100%
(1/1) loading package files                                             [########################################] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts                                       [########################################] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
libxml2-legacy: /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
==> ERROR: 'pacman' failed to install missing dependencies.
==> Missing dependencies:
  -> libxml2-legacy
==> ERROR: Could not resolve all dependencies.

I am a little stumped here. I actually do not know where I should start troubleshooting. The libxml2-legacy dependency is clearly mentionned in the depends=() block in PKGBUILD. But it is incompatible with another indispensable package libxml2.so.2 required by many other packages. Any pointers ?

@Muflone, sorry for suggesting the ln -s… workaround without realizing that libxml2‑legacy was already available in the Arch extra repo----I’d only discovered that package just now when the issue popped up, and my comment was just a quick-and-dirty way to keep FoxitReader running temporarily. Thanks a lot for maintaining the proper fix, much appreciated!

@ChHsich this is a wrong approach, you could simply install libxml2-legay instead.

I'll publish a package fix soon

FoxitReader fails to start due to missing libxml2.so.2:

$ foxitreader
/usr/lib/foxitreader/FoxitReader: error while loading shared libraries: libxml2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

This happens because Arch only provides libxml2.so.16 now. To fix:

$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libxml2.so.16 /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2

NOTE: Not a long-term fix — this may break after libxml2 updates. You can check the current version with:

$ ls /usr/lib/libxml2.so*

This now needs libxml2-legacy package, otherwise:

/usr/lib/foxitreader/FoxitReader: error while loading shared libraries: libxml2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

news?

@Muflone I have sent a report to the website to see what they say.