[Solved] Pacman message after interrupted installation... persists

joe74 · 2010-10-21 23:13:30

As you can see I'm still a bit of a newbie. Yesterday I was installing TeX live, but while installing someone unplugged a USB stick and all went stuck... it all just freeze the system, I guess it was a hardware problem. Anyway, I restarted and when I came back to resume the installation (downloading of packages was already finished), pacman sent me a lot of error messages, but apparently TeX live installed fine. Well, I checked my TeX system and works fine. The problem is every time I try to install something, I always get this error message:

error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/local/texlive-bin-2010.1-4/depends: No such file or directory
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/local/texlive-bin-2010.1-4/depends: No such file or directory

How do I repair this? I didn't want to clean the cache, but... would this do fine? what else do I have to do?

Thanx in advance.

Last edited by joe74 (2010-10-23 22:33:20)

Dogmeat · 2010-10-21 23:17:01

Try

pacman -Syyu

Last edited by Dogmeat (2010-10-21 23:18:32)

Allan · 2010-10-21 23:17:52

pacman -S texlive-bin

joe74 · 2010-10-21 23:42:22

None of those option solves the problem... not even forcing to install texlive-most package. I just checked and my texlive system is broken after forcing installing again one of those packages.

Any workaround?

Last edited by joe74 (2010-10-23 22:31:05)

joe74 · 2010-10-23 22:31:17

Well, solved by myself.

What I had to do after a lot of mess was

1. uninstall everything that was causing errors

sudo pacman -Rs texmaker texlive-most texlive-core texlive-bin

2. and clear the cache of files not installed

sudo pacman -Sc texmaker texlive-most texlive-core texlive-bin

This solved the entire problem. Dialectical theory still functioning in my brains

Miblo · 2010-10-27 00:03:04

I had this very problem, but unfortunately my problem package was sqlite3, to remove which it would have taken over a gigabyte of software with it. Happily, the problem seems to have sorted itself out (a reboot may have helped it along), and I no longer receive the dreaded 'error: could not open file [...]' messages.

joe74 · 2010-10-27 00:50:38

Hi, Miblo. In fact, I had to remove all packages related to the problem. I thought the same... a reboot would do, but it wasn't like that. I reinstalled and everything is doing fine. I can say I am more than satisfied with Archlinux, at least in my Desktop box.

Greetings.

Last edited by joe74 (2010-10-27 00:50:59)

Miblo · 2010-10-27 01:07:11

Wow, it's a bit of a nightmare problem, then. How much did you have to remove?

Yeah, I'm also delighted with Arch. There are only a couple of problems I sorely need to sort out - getting unicode characters to display properly in Terminal (XFCE's), and getting the wifi working to the standard it was in the originally installed Linpus Linux Lite and then in Fedora 10 - but other than that, I love Arch.

joe74 · 2010-10-27 01:17:52

Not much. Basic TeX system is about 800 Mb in Arch, but I noticed there were less installed because the problem pacman was displaying. Reinstalling was successfully and everything is ok

Miblo · 2010-10-27 01:26:28

Hmm... if I had to `pacman -Rc texinfo texlive-bin texlive-core`, I'd be getting rid of 1683.95 MB worth of stuff. Glad it's sorted for the both of us, though.

joe74 · 2010-10-27 01:29:47

I wouldn't have minded removing all that, as good as pacman would recover its proper functionality. My connection is not as fast though, but I need TeX for my daily work.

Allan · 2010-10-27 01:35:33

You would have got away with using "pacman -Rd <package> && pacman -S <package>" and not had to a big remove.

Miblo · 2010-10-27 16:49:46

/me grins sheepishly and thanks Allan for the hint.

The 'd' flag wasn't in the Remove Options of the manpage, so I missed it entirely. Must read more carefully and thoroughly next time. Incidentally, removing sqlite3 without bothering about dependencies would have removed a mere 0.91MB of data, as opposed to the 1743.90MB I was fearing.

Arch Linux

#1 2010-10-21 23:13:30

[Solved] Pacman message after interrupted installation... persists

#2 2010-10-21 23:17:01

Re: [Solved] Pacman message after interrupted installation... persists

#3 2010-10-21 23:17:52

Re: [Solved] Pacman message after interrupted installation... persists

#4 2010-10-21 23:42:22

Re: [Solved] Pacman message after interrupted installation... persists

#5 2010-10-23 22:31:17

Re: [Solved] Pacman message after interrupted installation... persists

#6 2010-10-27 00:03:04

Re: [Solved] Pacman message after interrupted installation... persists

#7 2010-10-27 00:50:38

Re: [Solved] Pacman message after interrupted installation... persists

#8 2010-10-27 01:07:11

Re: [Solved] Pacman message after interrupted installation... persists

#9 2010-10-27 01:17:52

Re: [Solved] Pacman message after interrupted installation... persists

#10 2010-10-27 01:26:28

Re: [Solved] Pacman message after interrupted installation... persists

#11 2010-10-27 01:29:47

Re: [Solved] Pacman message after interrupted installation... persists

#12 2010-10-27 01:35:33

Re: [Solved] Pacman message after interrupted installation... persists

#13 2010-10-27 16:49:46

Re: [Solved] Pacman message after interrupted installation... persists

Board footer