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#1 2006-05-12 10:59:02
- IsSuE
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Pacman forgot installed packages
When there was the bug with the libxfixes file, I uninstalled the whole Xorg package. But now i recognized, that pacman forgot all installed packages, what means i cant really upgrade my system. Is there a way to recover the database of installed packages? Or any other possible solution?
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#2 2006-05-12 11:05:58
- FUBAR
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Re: Pacman forgot installed packages
If you haven't cleaned out your cache, all the installed packages are located in /var/cache/pacman/pkg. You can install them again using "pacman -A $pkgname-$pkgver-$pkgrel.pkg.tar.gz". You're database should be fine after that.
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#3 2006-05-12 11:13:25
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Re: Pacman forgot installed packages
The prob is, that i cleared it 
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#4 2006-05-12 11:14:09
- tomk
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Re: Pacman forgot installed packages
You need to give some more details. What entry did you use to remove xorg? What's the response to pacman -Syu? The only way pacman would "forget" all installed packages is if /var/lib/pacman/local is deleted - hopefully you didn't do that, or did you?
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#5 2006-05-12 11:22:00
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Re: Pacman forgot installed packages
well, I cleared the local dir.
I dunno exactly how i remoeved Xorg, but I think with -Rs.
Then I reinstalled Xorg but found the problem again. So i cleared all local pacman files, means I deleted the local folder . I am now thinking about installing all the packages on the base CD.
pacman -Syu updates the new installed files, which i installed since this mistake 
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#6 2006-05-12 21:56:18
- T-Dawg
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Re: Pacman forgot installed packages
do ls /var/lib/pacman/local and if it looks like packages are missing and your cache is cleared as you say it is backup and reinstall. Trust me, its not worth the hassel of hacking a solution to restore the database once its been deleted because you'll never get them all.
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#7 2006-05-20 01:14:15
- B15HOP
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Re: Pacman forgot installed packages
Crap... I did the same thing trying to hack fix the xorg / font problem. :oops: :x
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#8 2006-05-20 15:38:42
- test1000
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Re: Pacman forgot installed packages
well if you still have your /var/log/pacman.log you can get the relevant entries and feed them to pacman with this cmd:
grep "(*)" /var/log/pacman.log|cut -d " " -f 4|xargs pacman -S
that should work i think.
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