[SOLVED] Deleted /usr/local/bin/sync - help?

paulie420 · 2021-12-13 11:40:24

I had a binary called syncterm, and meant to delete IT - but accidentally deleted /usr/local/bin/sync. Now, Timeshift (and other things?) won't work.

How can I reinstall sync???

Thanks... learning still.

Last edited by paulie420 (2021-12-13 23:03:18)

graysky · 2021-12-13 11:47:42

/usr/loca/bin/ should not be populated by packages. Guessing you put a binary called "sync" in there. Just do it again.

...but why did you do that in the first place?

EDIT: post the output of

which sync

If it references some alias you defined, remove that too.

Last edited by graysky (2021-12-13 11:49:04)

schard · 2021-12-13 11:55:32

graysky wrote:

Guessing you put a binary called "sync" in there. Just do it again.

No. Don't do that. Although rarely used, /usr/bin/sync is a core utility that you will mask by doing so.

paulie420 · 2021-12-13 12:01:59

To reiterate, I installed a terminal application called syncterm, and meant to delete IT - but instead deleted some system binary in /usr/local/bin/sync... I didn't delete /usr/local/bin/syncterm.

As requested:

paulie420:/ $ which sync
which: no sync in (/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl)

After doing so, when I run Timeshift, the backup utility, it fails stating:

Missing Dependancies
Commands listed below are not available on this system:
* sync
Please install required packages and try running TimeShift again

I ran
yay -S timeshift
but it didn't repair the issue, so I thought it was some system binary - and can't find any info on just SYNC...

Thanks, all.

seth · 2021-12-13 12:29:57

To re-iterate…

schard wrote:

No. Don't do that. Although rarely used, /usr/bin/sync is a core utility that you will mask by doing so.

I guess you're throwing around the "local" part a bit casually here, because you clearly removed that binary (as well)
So re-install the "coreutils".
If you actually had a different binary "sync" in /usr/local/bin, nobody can help you because we cannot possibly know what that was and where it came from but in any event and as shard pointed out: that would have been a dumb idea to begin with.

@graysky, stay away from whichcraft ;-)

paulie420 · 2021-12-13 14:21:14

seth wrote:

To re-iterate…
schard wrote:
No. Don't do that. Although rarely used, /usr/bin/sync is a core utility that you will mask by doing so.

I guess you're throwing around the "local" part a bit casually here, because you clearly removed that binary (as well)
So re-install the "coreutils".
If you actually had a different binary "sync" in /usr/local/bin, nobody can help you because we cannot possibly know what that was and where it came from but in any event and as shard pointed out: that would have been a dumb idea to begin with.
@graysky, stay away from whichcraft ;-)

Oops - sorry, maybe I got a part of it wrong - the 'sync' I deleted wasn't my own addition... well; it was from one of the core Arch/GNOME binaries installed when I first setup the system. I'm new, so I don't exactly know what it was - POSSIBLY I didn't delete it from /usr/local/bin , but thought so because thats where 'syncterm' lived; and I made the error by attempting to delete IT.

I can try reinstalling the coreutils package - thanks for that suggestion, thats what I was looking for...

And B00M!! That fixed it; I couldn't find a reference to 'sync' on any Arch sites - thanks for the coreutils suggestion. That was it!

And, sync does live in /usr/local/bin - at any rate, SOLVED. Thanks, all!

V1del · 2021-12-13 14:35:56

paulie420 wrote:

And, sync does live in /usr/local/bin - at any rate, SOLVED. Thanks, all!

It should not /usr/bin != /usr/local/bin , are you absolutely certain about this and if so, what's up with your paths exactly?

stat /usr/bin /usr/local /usr/local/bin

ewaller · 2021-12-13 17:43:05

V1del wrote:

/usr/bin != /usr/local/bin , are you absolutely certain about this and if so, what's up with your paths exactly?

Mayhaps this is not an Arch installation?

paulie420 · 2021-12-13 23:02:58

It was an Arch installation. Packe coreutils was populated in /usr/local/bin - I accidentally deleted binary 'sync' instead of syncterm... this was remedied with

sudo pacman -S coreutils

After which Timeshift fired right up as desired...

Scimmia · 2021-12-14 05:53:32

You don't understand what everyone is telling you.

Arch packages, other than 'filesystem', don't put anything in /usr/local/. Period. End of story. Whatever you had in /usr/local/bin/ did NOT come from the coreutils package.

seth · 2021-12-14 07:23:08

V1del wrote:

stat /usr/bin /usr/local /usr/local/bin

If you're symlinking /usr/local/bin to /usr/bin, you're doing it wrong.
If you don't do that you're either not using archlinux or coreutils didn't populate /usr/local/bin.
There're no further options.

Arch Linux

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[SOLVED] Deleted /usr/local/bin/sync - help?

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