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Hey im pretty sure i messed up my pacman database when trying to create a loopback image of it, and all my backups seem to have this same problem. it seems to think i have no packages installed and when i try to install anything it installs all deps and then wont finish due to files alreay existing. I know this was a pretty nube thing to do but could i get some advise on a resolution path? thanks guys
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My advice: backup you config files and reinstall. There are some possible solutions, one I remember reading about involved parsing pacman.log file for installed packages and reinstalling everything based on that, but I think you'll probably save time and get a better final result if you just reinstall.
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my settings are on a seprate partition. im just using pacman -Sf "package name" to reinstall everything i have. that should work i think
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try pacman -Sy see if that helps
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O.T.: How's it going ahron, this is jo from eugenerecords. Never noticed you around here before.
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Hey im pretty sure i messed up my pacman database when trying to create a loopback image of it, and all my backups seem to have this same problem. it seems to think i have no packages installed and when i try to install anything it installs all deps and then wont finish due to files alreay existing. I know this was a pretty nube thing to do but could i get some advise on a resolution path? thanks guys
what's in /var/lib/pacman/local? that's your database of installed packages.
also, could you post the exact error messages you're getting? that would help.
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O.T.: How's it going ahron, this is jo from eugenerecords. Never noticed you around here before.
hey man. do you use or develop arch? It is a great distro, i just came back to it recently but have used it regularly in the past. I live in Buffalo Ny now and have a daughter. lifes pretty good
Registered: 2007-05-05
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josomebody wrote:O.T.: How's it going ahron, this is jo from eugenerecords. Never noticed you around here before.
hey man. do you use or develop arch? It is a great distro, i just came back to it recently but have used it regularly in the past. I live in Buffalo Ny now and have a daughter. lifes pretty good
I wouldn't say I develop arch, but I do use arch for development. I've been hooked since I actually got a machine worth installing it on last summer. It was much less alien to me than Debian/Ubuntu after my FreeBSD background from school.
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ahronzombi wrote:josomebody wrote:O.T.: How's it going ahron, this is jo from eugenerecords. Never noticed you around here before.
hey man. do you use or develop arch? It is a great distro, i just came back to it recently but have used it regularly in the past. I live in Buffalo Ny now and have a daughter. lifes pretty good
I wouldn't say I develop arch, but I do use arch for development. I've been hooked since I actually got a machine worth installing it on last summer. It was much less alien to me than Debian/Ubuntu after my FreeBSD background from school.
i have a debian background but prefer something simple
Registered: 2007-05-05
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