[SOLVED] Everytime I Try To install a package it tries to reinstall.

Question

Hi,
My problem is that everytime I try to do a pacman -S package it tries to reinstall base. I did a pacstrap to install everything but pacman didnt create a /var/libs/pacman. I then created that directory and set it using pacman -b. Then did a pacman -syy and updated. It still says ive got packages within the filesystem and pacman wont install anything. This isnt my first arch install its my 10th. Ive tried reinstalling three times today.
Anyone got any suggestions?
Thanks
Last edited by cjm (2015-04-27 03:24:27)

Answer 1

* I apologize for my selfishness.  My error was as follows, in the live cd there is a file hierarchy similar to that of the one we are trying to create off mount. As such I was doing this.
    mount /dev/sdX /mnt
    mkdir  /mnt/{boot,var,home}
    mount /dev/sdX /boot
Instead of doing this....
    mount /dev/sdX /mnt
    mkdir /dev/sdX /mnt/{boot,var,home}
    mount /dev/sdX /mnt/boot
It was a simple mistake and one that I could probably make a hundred times over.
Thanks for showing me the forum etiquette.
Last edited by cjm (2015-04-27 04:10:11)