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#1 2008-07-27 01:23:41
- solarwind
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Help I Removed Glibc
I was trying to reinstall glibc and I accedentally uninstalled glibc, now nothing works. I just did it and I had firefox open luckily and I am able to type this message. What can I do now to fix it? Nothing works, not even BASH!.
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#2 2008-07-27 01:48:40
- skottish
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Re: Help I Removed Glibc
I did something very similar before with glibc. This works.
If you happen to have a live CD around, you can force copy the package into the correct directories. If you have a copy in /var/cache/pacman/pkg that would be helpful, but you can get it from a mirror also. Either way, get the package, unpack it, and simply copy the folders over the existing ones. For instance, copy /usr from package over /usr in the file system. Once that's done and you can boot your system again, reinstall using pacman so that your system database is up to date.
Good luck.
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#3 2008-07-27 01:55:01
- solarwind
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Re: Help I Removed Glibc
Ok I fixed this before even checking the thread. I remembered that I had my USB stick with Arch Live on it so I booted, fsck'd the filesystems, mounted and --- here it comes --- pacman -U glibc -r /mnt/drive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11!!!!1!!1111111111111 Gotta love pacman! Thanks for posting though! Gotta love Linux all round. Just went from crippling my system to a perfect working system again.
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#4 2008-07-27 01:56:31
- smurnjiff
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Re: Help I Removed Glibc
Not only is Linux great, but _experience_ with Linux is even better.
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#5 2008-07-27 02:00:55
- skottish
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Re: Help I Removed Glibc
I'm glad you got it fixed. My situation with glibc was that I accidentally installed a 32 bit version over the 64 bit one! Whoops. I was a lot less capable back then and panicking was weighing heavily on my mind. Your solution is far more elegant than mine. Nice.
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#6 2008-07-27 02:15:28
- Misfit138
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Re: Help I Removed Glibc
Very smart solution. Great job.
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