[SOLVED] Restoring pacman packages from lost+found

candy_pebbles · 2022-02-27 17:08:13

My SSD partially died on me, I got some of it recovered to lost+found. A lot of things stayed intact, but it doesn't look like all of it survived, for example my home directory is untouched, ~~but I don't see the contents of /bin anywhere~~. I reinstalled the system to a different SSD, and now I want to reinstall all of my previous packages, does pacman store the active package list or .tar.xzs somewhere that I can use to recover them?
Edit: I think I found the /bin directory, is there a way to download all the packages and the proper setup for them through pacman with this information as a baseline?

Last edited by candy_pebbles (2022-02-27 18:55:37)

loqs · 2022-02-27 17:18:41

If pacman's database is intact see Tips_and_tricks#Reinstalling_all_packages. If it is not see the section after it entitled "Restore pacman's local database".

Slithery · 2022-02-27 17:49:31

Or if /var/cache/pacman/pkg still exists then that should contain all of your previousley installed packages unless you configured it otherwise.

candy_pebbles · 2022-02-27 18:53:12

Fortunatelly I had both the log file and the cached pkgs. I recovered it by doing this:

  sudo pacman -S pacutils

  LOGFILE=/mnt/disk/backup/lost+found/#8719572/log/pacman.log

  paclog --pkglist --logfile=$LOGFILE  | awk -F " " '{print $1}' > /tmp/old.list
  pacman -Q | awk -F " " '{print $1}' > /tmp/curr.list
  cd /tmp
  cat old.list curr.list > uniq.list
  sort uniq.list | uniq -u > install.list
  paru -S $(cat /tmp/install.list)

Last edited by candy_pebbles (2022-02-27 18:57:08)

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#1 2022-02-27 17:08:13

[SOLVED] Restoring pacman packages from lost+found

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Re: [SOLVED] Restoring pacman packages from lost+found

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Re: [SOLVED] Restoring pacman packages from lost+found

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Re: [SOLVED] Restoring pacman packages from lost+found

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