libxml2.so missing

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The bug

Running this script from Linux Mint, I get this error:

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

So it seems this script is not downloading libxml2, which is required by pacman.

The work-around for others encountering this

I managed to work around the issue like so:

• Go to https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/libxml2
• Click on Download From Mirror
• Extract the resulting .tar.zst file.
• Merge its contents with your chroot dir. In my case, it looked like this:
  • rsync -av ~/Downloads/libxml2-2.13.0-4-x86_64.pkg/usr/ chroot/myarch/usr/
• Rerun the arch-bootstrap command.

Once that was done I chroot'd in like normal and everything worked fine.