[SOLVED] could not fully load metadata for package pacman-5.2.1-6.0

whansard · 02-20-2021, 07:22 AM

my pacman package got messed up over a year ago, and i can't remember what i had to do to fix it. i think i extracted a package by hand. anyway, for the past year and a half or so..

Code:

pacman -Sdd pacman
looking for conflicting packages...
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/local/pacman-5.2.1-6.0/desc: No such file or directory
warning: could not fully load metadata for package pacman-5.2.1-6.0
error: failed to prepare transaction (invalid or corrupted package)

i can install upgrade everything else using the

Code:

--ignore pacman

whansard · 02-20-2021, 09:23 AM

i got it. i had to

Code:

touch desc
 mkdir files
pacman -S  pacman --overwrite '*'