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ahronzombi

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I think my pacman database is dead. what is the best way to rebuild i

Hey im pretty sure i messed up my pacman database when trying to create a loopback image of it, and all my backups seem to have this same problem. it seems to think i have no packages installed and when i try to install anything it installs all deps and then wont finish due to files alreay existing. I know this was a pretty nube thing to do but could i get some advise on a resolution path? thanks guys

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fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

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Re: I think my pacman database is dead. what is the best way to rebuild i

My advice: backup you config files and reinstall.  There are some possible solutions, one I remember reading about involved parsing pacman.log file for installed packages and reinstalling everything based on that, but I think you'll probably save time and get a better final result if you just reinstall.

ahronzombi

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Re: I think my pacman database is dead. what is the best way to rebuild i

my settings are on a seprate partition. im just using pacman -Sf "package name" to reinstall everything i have. that should work i think

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Mr Green

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Re: I think my pacman database is dead. what is the best way to rebuild i

try pacman -Sy see if that helps

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josomebody

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Registered: 2008-06-20

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Re: I think my pacman database is dead. what is the best way to rebuild i

O.T.: How's it going ahron, this is jo from eugenerecords. Never noticed you around here before.

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kludge

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Registered: 2008-08-03

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Re: I think my pacman database is dead. what is the best way to rebuild i

Hey im pretty sure i messed up my pacman database when trying to create a loopback image of it, and all my backups seem to have this same problem. it seems to think i have no packages installed and when i try to install anything it installs all deps and then wont finish due to files alreay existing. I know this was a pretty nube thing to do but could i get some advise on a resolution path? thanks guys

what's in /var/lib/pacman/local?  that's your database of installed packages.

also, could you post the exact error messages you're getting?  that would help.

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ahronzombi

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Re: I think my pacman database is dead. what is the best way to rebuild i

O.T.: How's it going ahron, this is jo from eugenerecords. Never noticed you around here before.

hey man. do you use or develop arch? It is a great distro, i just came back to it recently but have used it regularly in the past. I live in Buffalo Ny now and have a daughter. lifes pretty good

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josomebody

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Registered: 2008-06-20

Posts: 190

Re: I think my pacman database is dead. what is the best way to rebuild i

O.T.: How's it going ahron, this is jo from eugenerecords. Never noticed you around here before.

hey man. do you use or develop arch? It is a great distro, i just came back to it recently but have used it regularly in the past. I live in Buffalo Ny now and have a daughter. lifes pretty good

I wouldn't say I develop arch, but I do use arch for development. I've been hooked since I actually got a machine worth installing it on last summer. It was much less alien to me than Debian/Ubuntu after my FreeBSD background from school.

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ahronzombi

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Registered: 2007-05-06

Posts: 108

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Re: I think my pacman database is dead. what is the best way to rebuild i

O.T.: How's it going ahron, this is jo from eugenerecords. Never noticed you around here before.

hey man. do you use or develop arch? It is a great distro, i just came back to it recently but have used it regularly in the past. I live in Buffalo Ny now and have a daughter. lifes pretty good

I wouldn't say I develop arch, but I do use arch for development. I've been hooked since I actually got a machine worth installing it on last summer. It was much less alien to me than Debian/Ubuntu after my FreeBSD background from school.

i have a debian background but prefer something simple

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Registered: 2007-05-05
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