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darkbasic

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Registered: 2015-06-22

Posts: 45

[SOLVED]failed to initialize alpm library when trying to remove packag

I was compiling telepathy-morse-git with yaourt when it complained about a file conflict between telepathy-morse-git and telepathy-morse-qt4-git (which is a dep).
So I tried to remove it but unfortunately I noticed a strange error when I try to remove a package:

pacman -Sr ntp
error: failed to initialize alpm library
(could not find or read directory: ntp/var/lib/pacman/)

Everything else seem to work flawlessly, so my issue with pacman (and yaourt too) arises only when removing packages.
I found lots of topics with this error, but the issue was not limited to the package removal and the solutions I found didn't help.

Last edited by darkbasic (2015-06-22 12:12:29)

apg

Developer

Registered: 2012-11-10

Posts: 211

Re: [SOLVED]failed to initialize alpm library when trying to remove packag

pacman -Sr ntp
error: failed to initialize alpm library
(could not find or read directory: ntp/var/lib/pacman/)

That is not how you remove a package...

darkbasic

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Registered: 2015-06-22

Posts: 45

Re: [SOLVED]failed to initialize alpm library when trying to remove packag

What an idiot I am: I reversed the capital letters (-Sr instead of -Rs). I'm sorry.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [SOLVED]failed to initialize alpm library when trying to remove packag

Please remember to mark the thread as solved https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130309