[SOLVED] Pacman broken, tried reinstalling

Question

Hey all,
I just installed Arch on my system.
Tried to install new packages using pacman, but I got the errors that the 'extra' and 'community' databases don't exist.
I tried to check in the conf file, but couldn't see any errors. Where do I have to check?
I also tried to reinstall using the script form the sticky post:
#!/bin/bash
arch=`uname -m`
mirror=ftp://mirror.archlinux.no/
# link to cache (or download) and extract: openssl,libarchive,libfetch,pacman
cd /tmp
for pkg in openssl-1.0.0.e-1 libarchive-2.8.5-2 libfetch-2.33-3 pacman-3.5.4-4; do
pkgname=${pkg}-${arch}.pkg.tar.gz
if [[ -e /var/cache/pacman/pkg/${pkgname} ]]; then
ln -sf /var/cache/pacman/pkg/${pkgname} .
else
wget -c ${mirror}/core/os/${arch}/${pkgname} || exit 1
fi
tar -xvpzf ${pkgname} -C / --exclude .PKGINFO --exclude .INSTALL || exit 1
done
# now reinstall using pacman to update the local pacman db
pacman -Sf openssl libarchive libfetch pacman || exit 1
# now update your system
pacman -Syu
Of course i updated the package names to the recent updates. But duh(!!!) how can it work, when it's using pacman to install pacman...
So. I'm kinda lost here.
Thanks for any help!
Last edited by foreveraloneguy (2012-01-26 00:19:43)

Answer 1

I should point out it's not always wise to -Sy. Instead -Syu as it is safer.
Also, please mark this thread as solved (assuming it is solved) as described here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … ow_to_Post
Thanks!