On 1/17/10, Xavier Chantry <shiningxc@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Ray Rashif <schivmeister@gmail.com> wrote:
Often times it's the user configuration files that mess up a system, so keep that in mind unless you're really confident it's all in the packages themselves.
And if you're thinking of reinstalling a la pacman -S $(comm -3 <(pacman -Qq) <(pacman -Qqm)) then remember to put it in a list first, remove them (-Rscn) and then (re)install (-S). This is because some, if not many packages, contain post-remove/install commands that may affect the outcome.
I don't know if it's a good idea to remove pacman, libfetch, libarchive, glibc, bash, ...
If you are worried some important files got corrupted, a simple reinstall with pacman -S should be fine.
Ok thanks... The stpes are then to grab the list of packets as others have suggested, and then re-install the list with pacman -S, that should be the easier less risky approach. I justdon't want to break the system any more, and I want to prevent installing it from scratch... Thanks, -- Javier.