Pacman: "error: database path undefined"

Abecedarian · 2009-01-22 10:41:50

Whenever I try do anything with pacman, I get the error quoted in the title. This was after accidentally deleting /var in the process of mounting a partition there. I'm fearful that I've deleted something vital; namely, pacman's internal record of what's installed. I just wanted to double check before I have to re-install (again...) and make sure that there's no way to recover.

Thanks for any help.

u_no_hu · 2009-01-22 10:51:11

All the pacman databases are in var. Dont have any backups?

Allan · 2009-01-22 11:21:37

You have deleted pacmans record of everything that was installed. You could try and identify what you have installed from the files on your system and using "pacman -Sf package" but a reinstall is probably easier...

ibendiben · 2009-01-22 11:54:39

Or you have your database in an irregular place and you need to define that place in pacman.conf

toad · 2009-01-22 12:08:07

Sorry to butt in - is there no way of regenerating a database? Or at least dumping in a standard that can be built up over time?

ibendiben · 2009-01-23 00:15:10

Check this out:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=50957
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=52117

Abecedarian · 2009-01-23 03:15:05

Thanks everyone. Sounds like the easiest and cleanest way to do it is just to reinstall so that it won't come back to bite me. Cheers.

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Pacman: "error: database path undefined"

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