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SpeedVin

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From: Poland

Registered: 2009-04-29

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[Solved] I broke Pacman

Hello
Today when i clean my system i remove bzip2 package (It was disaster).
And when i want something to remove or install i got error that pacman can't load libbz2.so.1 libary.
There any wau to recovery pacman. (i got arch cd,pacman sources and cimpiled packages.
Please help.

Last edited by SpeedVin (2009-05-30 06:54:12)

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Peasantoid

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Re: [Solved] I broke Pacman

libbz2.so* (there might be several) should be in /lib on the CD.

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Re: [Solved] I broke Pacman

You can download the bzip2 package with wget, and untar it into the installation root (and hope tar doesn't need bzip2 installed to do that stuff).

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thunderogg

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Re: [Solved] I broke Pacman

I had the same problem : http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=68321

foutrelis

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From: Athens, Greece

Registered: 2008-07-28

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Re: [Solved] I broke Pacman

Assuming you have the bzip2-1.0.5-4 package somewhere on your root partition, you can try the following:

Boot off the live CD and mount your root partition under /mnt/archroot:

mkdir /mnt/archroot && mount /dev/sdxx /mnt/archroot

Install the bzip2 package in the newly mounted root:

pacman -r /mnt/archroot -U /mnt/archroot/path/to/bzip2-1.0.5-4-{i686,x86_64}.pkg.tar.gz

Reboot.

karol

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Re: [Solved] I broke Pacman

@thunderogg
Wrt your signature: don't let the door hit you on your way out :-)

@B
tar can be used w/ different compressors, but it needs external apps like gzip, bzip2, xztools etc. It also applies to bsdtar.

fflarex

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Re: [Solved] I broke Pacman

Lol, the same thing happened to me just yesterday. I solved it with the method foutrelis mentioned.

thunderogg

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Re: [Solved] I broke Pacman

@thunderogg
Wrt your signature: don't let the door hit you on your way out :-)

The chanses I will find a distro which is better are slim, so I don't think I have to worry about the door.

karol

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Re: [Solved] I broke Pacman

@thunderogg
Oh well, whatever, nevermind :-)

@SpeedVin
Sorry for OT.

SpeedVin

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From: Poland

Registered: 2009-04-29

Posts: 955

Re: [Solved] I broke Pacman

Thanks you all you really help my.
Thanks and bye.

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