How to repair a broken Arch Linux?

ericramirez · 2015-09-29 01:29:45

I deleted the lib32-ncurses manually from the /usr/lib folder (I know...)

It broke Arch. So I boot from my a live cd but if I try to, mounted the partition but when trying to chroot to the root mount at /mnt I get:

/bin/bash: error while loading shared libraries: libncursesw.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I know I did something foolish but I'm desperate now.

fukawi2 · 2015-09-29 01:58:58

Don't enter the chroot, just use the --root option to pacman from the live environment.

fukawi2 · 2015-09-29 02:27:50

Please do not email people directly for assistance -- the forum is the location for support.

via email wrote:

Is it just a matter of typing pacman -root /var/cache/pacman/pkg/linux-kernel?

That is the command you need, but you also need the flags to install the appropriate packages:

pacman -root /var/cache/pacman/pkg/linux-kernel -S lib32-ncurses

ericramirez · 2015-09-29 03:34:54

It didn't work

fukawi2 · 2015-09-29 03:42:02

ericramirez wrote:

It didn't work

Scimmia · 2015-09-29 07:28:47

That command is wrong. You'll need to boot the live CD, mount the root partition, then use pacman --root <mountpoint> -U <path to package file>

Or just pacman --root <mountpoint> -Syu. Also, the problem is going to be in ncurses, not lib32-ncurses

Last edited by Scimmia (2015-09-29 07:30:24)

Paplepel · 2015-09-29 08:13:01

If chroot does not work you can use pacstrap -i /mnt lib32-ncurses ncurses

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