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krzd

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Registered: 2010-03-18

Posts: 9

Pacman removed

Hi,
I did a big mistake. I removed pacman instead of pacman-color and then pacman-color. Now I don't have any pacman on my system. Is there any way to get it back?

Thanks in advance

jasonwryan

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From: .nz

Registered: 2009-05-09

Posts: 30,424

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Re: Pacman removed

Some suggestions here: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=93447

(Hint: searching almost always works...)

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ataraxia

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From: Pittsburgh

Registered: 2007-05-06

Posts: 1,553

Re: Pacman removed

Get the pacman package from somewhere (probably there's one in /var/cache/pacman/pkg/) and open it with tar. Put the contents in the right places by hand. Once you have that working, re-install pacman the normal way to get it back in the DB.

sand_man

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-06-10

Posts: 2,164

Re: Pacman removed

Can't he just use pacman-static to install the "real" pacman package from the repos?

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Cyrusm

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From: Bozeman, MT

Registered: 2007-11-15

Posts: 1,053

Re: Pacman removed

if I'm not mistaken ( and I might be off on the details, since I've never had to do this)  you should be able to either install pacman from an Arch LiveCD, or use pacman from an Arch liveCD to install pacman from the core repo.  (pacman -S pacman)?   in theory it ought to work.  I would test this idea out for you but I seem to have misplaced my liveCD and I'm not going to burn another one tonight.  just an idea, maybe worth looking into.

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skottish

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Re: Pacman removed

Can't he just use pacman-static to install the "real" pacman package from the repos?

It's been long removed from the regular pacman package. Installing it isn't any more or less difficult than the other suggestions.

Gen2ly

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From: Sevierville, TN

Registered: 2009-03-06

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Re: Pacman removed

Should be in your cache (/var/cache/pacman/pkg/), just install it like a normal tar extraction:

tar xvf pacman-3.3.3-1.pkg.tar.gz -C /

Afterwords reinstall again with the force option so the database knows about it.

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krzd

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Registered: 2010-03-18

Posts: 9

Re: Pacman removed

Thanks for all your answers. I didn't had pacman in the cache. Downloading the pacman sources, compoling it and installing pacman with my compiled pacman did the thing.

Thanks