[solved] Pacman believes nothing is installed

Hello,
It's been a week or so I am not getting any update on my laptop when trying to run "pacman -Syu"
So I started to check if the mirrors I used were up to date, I changed the according to some listed as up to date in https://www.archlinux.org/mirrors/status/ .
Nothing changed, "pacman -Syyu" still told me there was no update.
Then... I discovered that nothing is installed, according to pacman. Pacman itself is not considered as install. And if I try to install it (with itself), it's listing me all the dependencies I am missing, ie, everything.
But for sure, I have some packages installed. So I didn't try to reinstall anything yet.
I am wondering if there is any way to help pacman to see the light and "rediscover" the installed packages without reinstalling them ?
Thank you !
Last edited by ekryyn (2015-03-18 17:10:50)

$ uname -a
Linux Tomato 3.18.6-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Feb 7 08:44:05 CET 2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ pacman -Qq | wc -l
0
$ du -sh /var/lib/pacman/local
72K /var/lib/pacman/local
The wiki indeed seems to cover my case, I couldn't make any google query to point me to this :
"pacman does not recognize installed packages", wiki is the first result, but I couldn't follow the track to the solution. Now that I know it needs a database recovery, my next search will be more efficient, better than "pacman is drunk"
I am following the wiki steps right now, thank you very much !
I'll mark it as resolved when finished (hopefully it will be resolved)
Last edited by ekryyn (2015-03-18 16:55:42)

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That error as a rule is because it thinks it's already Installed, does it have an Uninstall option to try before reinstalling it?

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3rd time trying to download additional content for mainstage....takes 15-20 hours each time...then asks for my password/id for permission...starts installing and about 1/4 of the way..it dissapears and nothing is installed....confused and frustrated..:-(

aerol wrote:
Are you trying to install all the content options at the same time? If so, have you tried to install them one at a time?
Yep.... this worked fine for me
CCT

[solved] Pacman believes nothing is installed

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