[arch-general] oops, 'sudo: pacman: command not found'

Greg Minshall minshall at acm.org
Mon Jun 8 01:09:12 UTC 2020


hi.  a month ago i ran out of room on my root file system, so relocated
/var/cache/pacman to /home, and left behind a symlink.

today, after a while, i did a 'pacman -Syu', which downloaded lots, and
ran through a lot new keys, upgrading, etc., then failed (see below),
and (the symbolic link at) /var/cache/pacman seems to have disappeared.

any suggestions on how i might recover?  (and, should i, possibly,
rather than using a symlink, have modified, e.g., /etc/pacman.conf?)

i have all the files still in /home/pacman/pkg, etc. (and have put back
the symlink).

cheers, and thanks in advance, Greg
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(210/487) upgrading pacman-mirrorlist
[#########... truncated ... #################] 100%
warning: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist installed as /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.pacnew
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/pacman-5.2.1-6-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst: No such file or directory
error: could not commit transaction
error: failed to commit transaction (transaction aborted)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
bash apollo2 (master): {1185} sudo pacman -Syu
[sudo] password for minshall:
sudo: pacman: command not found
bash apollo2 (master): {1186} ls /var/cache/
atop.d/     fontconfig/ ldconfig/   lightdm/    man/        pkgfile/    private/


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