Pacman db problem

Caspian · 2007-10-26 09:49:23

Being stupid as i am, i accidentaly deleted pacman.db file. Now i have no information on installed packages and pt-pacman-info -i says that there are 0 packages installed. This is all ofcourse logical because there is no pacman.db. How can this problem be solved????

kumico · 2007-10-26 10:42:48

there should be a pacman.db.bak there as well, maybe you can restore the db to soem extent from that

Caspian · 2007-10-26 14:37:23

Tx for the post, but my /var/lib/pacman.bak is empty. Don't ask me how or why. Someone please halp me, i really don't have the time for whole reinstalling process....:(

Ramses de Norre · 2007-10-26 14:44:34

I think your only reference will be /var/log/pacman.log then.

Caspian · 2007-10-26 14:52:23

Oh no!!!

kishd · 2007-10-26 15:23:58

Never did any programming but learned a little about linux over time. Perhaps one of the programmers could help with a script to re-install all the packages that were installed using pacman.log as a reference. I have come up with a crude script that could give you some idea of the packages to re-install.

grep "installed" /var/log/pacman.log | cut -d' ' -f4 | sort -u

Caspian · 2007-10-26 15:53:37

This is probably the stupidest thing i've ever done. It wasn't intended, but nevertheless. Seems like i'll end up with reinstalling the whole system from scratch...:(

byte · 2007-10-26 16:02:07

May I suggest

grep -E '\] installed |\] upgraded ' /var/log/pacman.log | cut -d' ' -f4 | sort -u

instead? The above was already fine but didn't account for packages that were installed on the first installation, at least on my system.

kishd · 2007-10-26 18:56:30

Another possibility is to re-install all the packages in /var/cache/pacman/pkg if you have not cleared it.

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#1 2007-10-26 09:49:23

Pacman db problem

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Re: Pacman db problem

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