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ToastedToad

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From: Sequim, WA

Registered: 2006-03-08

Posts: 79

/usr/bin/pacman: No such file or directory

Ok, either I'm missing something very obvious, going insane, or something is very wrong.

A little background. Just built a new rig. Reformatted a HD and reinstalled Arch64 and Arch. Got them all set up, no real issues besides sneaking the xork thing in on me. Took a few to figure that one out , but I did and everything was happy. Both installations are practically identical. Today I did a '-Syu' on the Arch64 installation and was introduced to the new repo oganization. I'd been so busy with building and testing this new rig that I haven't really kept current on any changes to Arch over the last week. My bad there. But now I get this error after pacman upgraded itself...

[scott@gamer pacman]$ pacman -Qi pacman
bash: /usr/bin/pacman: No such file or directory

It exists in /usr/bin..

[scott@gamer bin]$ ls -la | grep pacman
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root      64844 2007-09-16 15:33 pacman
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root       3945 2007-09-16 15:33 pacman-optimize
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root    1046216 2007-09-16 15:33 pacman.static

I believe that I followed the instructions regarding the repo switcharoo correctly, though if I didn't I can't see why I would be having this particular issue anyway.

I usually do my best to solve my own problems with Linux, but this one I cannot find a single reference to. So I turn to the community. I more info is need just let me know.

Thanks

skottish

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From: Here

Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: /usr/bin/pacman: No such file or directory

I've seen stuff like this before when my system was looking for a 64 bit library and it all it "found" was a 32 bit library. Is it possible that you installed the 32 bit pacman or a library that it depends on your 64 bit box?

Last edited by skottish (2007-09-22 01:22:43)

ToastedToad

Member

From: Sequim, WA

Registered: 2006-03-08

Posts: 79

Re: /usr/bin/pacman: No such file or directory

I've seen stuff like this before when my system was looking for a 64 bit library and it all it "found" was a 32 bit library. Is it possible that you installed the 32 bit pacman or a library that it depends on your 64 bit box?

Well all I did was 'pacman -Syu' from within my 64 bit environment, unless the mirror installed it wrong??....can't imagine why it would do so....thanks for the info, it's a good place to start.