Shared object "libarchive.so.7" not found, required by "pkg"

Question

I'm using FreeBSD 12-CURRENT and recently I tried to update my packages with pkg.

pkg update finished successfully, but pkg upgrade returned the following error:

Shared object "libarchive.so.5" not found, required by "pkg"

What should I do?

Mateusz Piotrowski · Accepted Answer · 2020-07-17T15:03:16.000

First of all, try pkg bootstrap -f (or pkg install -f pkg).
If it fails then try pkg-static bootstrap -f (or pkg-static install -f pkg) as it doesn't require any shared objects.
If everything else doesn't work then you can install pkg from ports:
```
 cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg
 make
 make reinstall clean
```

You should be able to use pkg now.

Also, remember that there are two programs called pkg in FreeBSD. See man 7 pkg and man 8 pkg for more details.

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