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simke

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From: croatia

Registered: 2009-04-01

Posts: 30

[SOLVED] lost pacman sync db of installd pakages

hi.

as I said, I lost pacman database off installd pakages.

─(simke@philander:pts/0)─────────────────────────────────────────────────(~)─┐
└─(21:33:%)── pacman -Q                                         ──(Mon,May18)─┘
┌─(simke@philander:pts/0)─────────────────────────────────────────────────(~)─┐
└─(21:34:%)──                                                   ──(Mon,May18)─┘

I installd pacman-cage and ih faild tu, what eve hi nead to do, end I now nead install all dependencies agein.

┌─(simke@philander:pts/0)─────────────────────────────────────────────────(~)─┐
└─(21:34:%)── pS openbox                                        ──(Mon,May18)─┘
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets (46): xcb-proto-1.4-1  xproto-7.0.15-1  kernel-headers-2.6.29.1-1  
              tzdata-2009g-1  glibc-2.9-7  libxdmcp-1.0.2-2  libxau-1.0.4-1  
              libxcb-1.2-1  kbproto-1.0.3-2  libx11-1.2.1-1  libice-1.0.5-1  
              ncurses-5.7-2  readline-5.2.013-2  bash-3.2.048-3  
              e2fsprogs-1.41.5-2  libsm-1.1.0-1  xcb-util-0.3.4-2  
              startup-notification-0.10-1  zlib-1.2.3.3-3  libxml2-2.7.3-1  
              inputproto-1.5.0-1  xextproto-7.0.5-1  libxext-1.0.5-2  
              xineramaproto-1.1.2-2  libxinerama-1.0.3-2  renderproto-0.9.3-2  
              libxrender-0.9.4-2  randrproto-1.3.0-1  libxrandr-1.3.0-1  
              fixesproto-4.0-3  libxfixes-4.0.3-2  libxcursor-1.1.9-2  
              gcc-libs-4.4.0-1  pcre-7.9-1  glib2-2.20.1-1  libpng-1.2.36-1  
              freetype2-2.3.9-2  expat-2.0.1-2  fontconfig-2.6.0-2  
              pixman-0.14.0-2  cairo-1.8.6-1  libxft-2.1.13-1  
              libdatrie-0.2.2-1  libthai-0.1.11-1  pango-1.24.2-1  
              openbox-3.4.7.2-2  

Total Download Size:    30.50 MB
Total Installed Size:   115.61 MB

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and, I think, that I wiil not get an updates.

I have installd pacamn-cage, end hi did not finish, what ever hi nead tu.

pleas help.

sorry for bed eanglish, I am from croatia.

Last edited by simke (2009-05-18 20:20:05)

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I'm a Paladin with 18 charisma and 97 hit points. I can use my helm of disintegration and do one D4 damage as my half-elf mage wields his plus-five holy avenger.

simke

Member

From: croatia

Registered: 2009-04-01

Posts: 30

Re: [SOLVED] lost pacman sync db of installd pakages

I find it, it is in

/var/lib/pacman/pacman.bak/pacman.bak/local

but there are folders whit name of all installd pakages.

how can I now retrive my db. can I do that vhit this information. and how.

could I yust c/p those folders tu, where they nead to bee.

Last edited by simke (2009-05-18 20:10:36)

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I'm a Paladin with 18 charisma and 97 hit points. I can use my helm of disintegration and do one D4 damage as my half-elf mage wields his plus-five holy avenger.

lucke

Member

From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: [SOLVED] lost pacman sync db of installd pakages

Copy that to /var/lib/pacman/local.

bender02

Member

From: UK

Registered: 2007-02-04

Posts: 1,328

Re: [SOLVED] lost pacman sync db of installd pakages

Just copy the directory that contains 'local' into /var/lib/pacman (so that you'll have /var/lib/pacman/local and inside "the folders with installed packages").

EDIT: owned. damn.

Last edited by bender02 (2009-05-18 20:10:17)

simke

Member

From: croatia

Registered: 2009-04-01

Posts: 30

Re: [SOLVED] lost pacman sync db of installd pakages

yeh. thats all folks.

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I'm a Paladin with 18 charisma and 97 hit points. I can use my helm of disintegration and do one D4 damage as my half-elf mage wields his plus-five holy avenger.