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Zeddi

Member

From: Germany near Bremen

Registered: 2009-08-30

Posts: 30

[solved] pacman ... lost

Yesterday i've updated one of my archinstallation wich runs in a VirtualBox.

So i started a pacman -Syu, and pacman asked me to update pacman first, which i accepted.

After he had done the update, i started pacman -Syu again, to update the rest of the System, and i left the room vor a while to do some other things. After comming back, i forget about the VirtualBox Machine, and shut down the host-systems without stopping the arch-in-VirtualBox.

After booting this Morning the host, and later also the guest-system to complete the arch-virtualbox-update, i tried pacman -Syu, but he says "command not found". A "find / -name pacman" only finds "/var/cache/pacman" and "/var/lib/pacman" but not /usr/bin/pacman e.t.c. ...

Is there any chance to reinstall pacman again without ... pacman?

The pakages in /var/cache/pacman seems to be complete.

Last edited by Zeddi (2010-06-26 10:02:59)

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schuay

Package Maintainer (PM)

From: Austria

Registered: 2008-08-19

Posts: 564

Re: [solved] pacman ... lost

Untar the pacman package from /var/cache/pacman to root.

Zeddi

Member

From: Germany near Bremen

Registered: 2009-08-30

Posts: 30

Re: [solved] pacman ... lost

Thanks a lot! Thas was a simple, but powerfull solution!

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Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: [solved] pacman ... lost

You should run :
pacman -S pacman
to make sure it's installed correctly.