[SOLVED]Broke Pacman, now I need to call it with /usr/bin/pacman

blarneyrabble · 2016-03-04 17:02:05

If I just type pacman, I get the pacman I installed from source in /usr/local/bin/pacman , which is configured incorrectly.
I do have a copy of the script in the sticky, modified for now, if anyones interested...

Here is my /etc/profile :

# /etc/profile

#Set our umask
umask 022

# Set our default path
PATH="/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin"
export PATH

# Load profiles from /etc/profile.d
if test -d /etc/profile.d/; then
        for profile in /etc/profile.d/*.sh; do
                test -r "$profile" && . "$profile"
        done
        unset profile
fi

# Source global bash config
if test "$PS1" && test "$BASH" && test -z ${POSIXLY_CORRECT+x} && test -r /etc/bash.bashrc; then
        . /etc/bash.bashrc
fi

Last edited by blarneyrabble (2016-03-05 15:55:06)

ugjka · 2016-03-04 17:07:09

Try changing the order of PATH

PATH="/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin"

WorMzy · 2016-03-04 17:16:36

Remove the broken /usr/local installation?

blarneyrabble · 2016-03-04 17:23:45

Also, printenv says my path is

PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/default/bin:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl

, and when I rename /usr/local/bin/pacman to /usr/local/bin/pacman.bak , if I type pacman, its says

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

Here is my /usr/local/bin , all of the stuff in there I put there when I was trying to fix pacman, and I'd like it gone without any errors :

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  21568 Feb  1 16:56 cleanupdelta
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  63909 Feb  1 16:56 makepkg
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   6536 Feb  1 16:56 makepkg-template
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 511312 Feb  1 16:56 pacman.bak
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     15 Mar  4 08:44 pacman.bak2 -> /usr/bin/pacman
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  11466 Feb  1 16:56 pacman-db-upgrade
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  23342 Feb  1 16:56 pacman-key
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   7003 Feb  1 16:56 pacman-optimize
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  39168 Feb  1 16:56 pacsort
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  53600 Feb  1 16:56 pactree
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  11164 Feb  1 16:56 pkgdelta
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  23106 Feb  1 16:56 repo-add
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      8 Feb  1 16:56 repo-elephant -> repo-add
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      8 Feb  1 16:56 repo-remove -> repo-add
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  18272 Feb  1 16:56 testpkg
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  23280 Feb  1 16:56 vercmp

Scimmia · 2016-03-04 17:25:00

What does `which pacman` give you?

clfarron4 · 2016-03-04 21:29:10

blarneyrabble wrote:

If I just type pacman, I get the pacman I installed from source in /usr/local/bin/pacman , which is configured incorrectly.

How did you install pacman to /usr/local/bin/pacman?

I'd have though the course of action that you would want to take is uninstall pacman from there and then install pacman with it built using /usr/bin/pacman...

blarneyrabble · 2016-03-05 15:50:42

So, I changed my PATH, in my profile, as recommended, then when I went

which pacman

I got /usr/bin/pacman, but when I tried to

pacman -Syu

it said

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

So I opened a new terminal, and logged back in as root, and tried again, PROBLEM SOLVED!
Guess I needed to refresh the settings in the terminal window to apply the profile.
Thanks Everyone!
(I had installed pacman to /usr/local/bin/pacman either by downloading it from the arch web page and running make and make install or with the script I modified from the sticky at the top of this forum. I'm including it at the bottom of this post, because the one in the sticky is quite old. I guess you'd want to modify this one to install pacman in the right place if you were going to actually use it - Although I think I did something else, too, as pacman was trying to reference an arch USB stick I had in the drive as a primary source as well)
I guess what confused me about PATH was that the last entry is applied first.

Everything works now. Not sure why I'm posting the following code. Feel free to ignore, or use if for some reason you borked your system with yaourt like I did.

cat pacmanscript.sh
#!/bin/bash

arch=x86_64
mirror=http://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu/archlinux

# link to cache (or download) and extract: openssl,libarchive,libfetch,pacman
cd /tmp
for pkg in openssl-1.0.2.f-1 libarchive-3.1.2-8 pacman-5.0.0-1; do
    pkgname=${pkg}-${arch}.pkg.tar.xz
    if [[ -e /var/cache/pacman/pkg/${pkgname} ]]; then
        ln -sf /var/cache/pacman/pkg/${pkgname} .
    else
        wget ${mirror}/core/os/${arch}/${pkgname} || exit 1
    fi
    sudo tar -xvpf ${pkgname} -C / --exclude .PKGINFO --exclude .INSTALL || exit 1
done

# now reinstall using pacman to update the local pacman db 
sudo pacman -S --force openssl libarchive pacman || exit 1

# now update your system
sudo pacman -Syu

TheChickenMan · 2016-03-05 19:13:52

Why not simply remove Pacman from /usr/local as suggested by Wormzy?

blarneyrabble · 2016-03-06 06:31:12

Removing pacman from /usr/local didn't work. To test this I renamed it to /usr/local/bin/pacman.old (or something like that), and then tried to run pacman, and it gave me a command not found. It couldn't find it, even though it was in /usr/bin
In retrospect, it might have worked, had I removed/renamed it and logged out of my terminal session and logged back in (or simply opened a new terminal), but removing it from /usr/local/bin , then immediately typing pacman from the same terminal, didn't work.

Awebb · 2016-03-06 08:24:43

When I read the first post, I thought "has he tried turning it off and on again" with some sort of smirk on my virtual face. Now after reading your most recent post, I wonder, whether that has happened in any capacity. Could you please clarify, what you have done between altering the path variable, deleting the local pacman and whatever state your system is in now?

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#1 2016-03-04 17:02:05

[SOLVED]Broke Pacman, now I need to call it with /usr/bin/pacman

#2 2016-03-04 17:07:09

Re: [SOLVED]Broke Pacman, now I need to call it with /usr/bin/pacman

#3 2016-03-04 17:16:36

Re: [SOLVED]Broke Pacman, now I need to call it with /usr/bin/pacman

#4 2016-03-04 17:23:45

Re: [SOLVED]Broke Pacman, now I need to call it with /usr/bin/pacman

#5 2016-03-04 17:25:00

Re: [SOLVED]Broke Pacman, now I need to call it with /usr/bin/pacman

#6 2016-03-04 21:29:10

Re: [SOLVED]Broke Pacman, now I need to call it with /usr/bin/pacman

#7 2016-03-05 15:50:42

Re: [SOLVED]Broke Pacman, now I need to call it with /usr/bin/pacman

#8 2016-03-05 19:13:52

Re: [SOLVED]Broke Pacman, now I need to call it with /usr/bin/pacman

#9 2016-03-06 06:31:12

Re: [SOLVED]Broke Pacman, now I need to call it with /usr/bin/pacman

#10 2016-03-06 08:24:43

Re: [SOLVED]Broke Pacman, now I need to call it with /usr/bin/pacman

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