[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
Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
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)

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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