[solved] Pacman cannot install/update packages

ruddy32 · 2021-03-12 21:09:39

Hi,
While installing pacma with pacman -S pacman, the system show :

...
pacman: /usr/share/man/man8/repo-add.8.gz exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/man/man8/repo-remove.8.gz exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/man/man8/vercmp.8.gz exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/pacman/PKGBUILD-split.proto exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/pacman/PKGBUILD-vcs.proto exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/pacman/PKGBUILD.proto exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/pacman/proto.install exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/pkgconfig/libmakepkg.pc exists in filesystem
pacman: /usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_pacman exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

How to force pacman reinstall ?

System update with pacman -Syyu, still show :

:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
 there is nothing to do

This is the same since few weeks. What's wrong on the system ?
Thx

Last edited by ruddy32 (2021-03-13 20:28:39)

jasonwryan · 2021-03-12 21:20:48

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … )%22_error

WorMzy · 2021-03-12 21:24:16

Mod note: Not an installation issue, moving to NC

ruddy32 · 2021-03-13 09:29:18

The problem is with all packages files. Pacman is not able to list installed packaged.

After running

pacman -S pacman --overwrite '*'

the following command

pacman -Qqe

return

pacman

I was using Yay to manage package updates. Is it a bad practice?

Is there a way to list installed packages without pacman?

As I understand, installed packages are available in /var/lib/pacman/local/, right?
This directory list only last installed packages (pacman and its dependencies)

Last edited by ruddy32 (2021-03-13 09:54:36)

GaKu999 · 2021-03-13 10:04:44

Do you remember doing something funky with your pacman local database?
Because it seems you obliterated it somewhere before this issue pooped up...

There are no “easy” solutions for this since you now must reinstall everything you had previously...

Last edited by GaKu999 (2021-03-13 18:35:46)

ruddy32 · 2021-03-13 10:28:52

One time there were a missing disk space while updating system. Maybe running a bad command to cleanup system

I retrieve all installed package using pacman.log.

grep -i '\[ALPM\] installed' /var/log/pacman.log | cut -d ' ' -f 5 | grep -v '(' > packlist
grep -i '\[ALPM\] installed' /var/log/pacman.log | cut -d ' ' -f 4 | grep -v 'installed' >> packlist
sort packlist | uniq > packlist

Awebb · 2021-03-13 10:59:38

While I don't believe yay did this, it is generally good practice to use pacman to manage local packages, because you'll never know what a pacman wrapper does while you're not looking. This is (as far as I know) one of the reasons why pacman wrappers will never™ be added to the official repositories.

As a sidenote, you don't need sort|uniq, because of sort -u.

seth · 2021-03-13 13:13:55

If you ever also removed packages, they'll be re-added this way.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … l_database

ruddy32 · 2021-03-13 20:29:39

Thx seth. This works fine.

Arch Linux

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[solved] Pacman cannot install/update packages

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