how do I manually install pacman

[amber field]

I believe that I have uninstalled pacman, how do I get it back?

[reef yarrow]

@amber field if you type pacman, what happens?

[amber field]

no opperation specified

[reef yarrow]

@amber field screenshot that please

[amber field]

However if I do sudo pacman -Syu it gives me error: failed to synchronise all databases (unable to lock database)

[reef yarrow]

@amber field screenshot that please

[twin eagle]

Do rm /etc/pacman.d/lck.db

[reef yarrow]

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman#.22Failed_to_init_transaction_.28unable_to_lock_database.29.22_error

[amber field]

No such file or directory

[reef yarrow]

screenshot that please

or reboot

[reef yarrow]

it's etc not ect

and sudo remove that

[reef yarrow]

sudo rm -rf /etc/pacman.d/lck.db

@amber field

[amber field]

Hang on

My keyboard broke

noep

Whole thing stopped responding

[amber field]

nothing

[reef yarrow]

@amber field now try a -syu

[amber field]

Same thing

@reef yarrow

[reef yarrow]

@amber field reboot then try

[amber field]

What do you mean reboot

[pastel cedar]

Type reboot into the terminal

[reef yarrow]

@amber field

[reef yarrow]

sudo reboot

[pastel cedar]

Have you already rebooted?

[amber field]

Yes

@pastel cedar

[amber field]

I've done that

[pastel cedar]

Was pacman previously working on the system?

[amber field]

Yes

[reef yarrow]

wget https://pkgbuild.com/~morganamilo/pacman-static/x86_64/bin/

chmod +x ./pacman-static

sudo ./pacman-static -Syu

Clean all occurrences of pacman from /usr/local/ find them with whereis pacman

@amber field

[old cradle]

On a steam deck pacman doesn’t work out of the box anymore

[amber field]

so what do I do?

[old cradle]

Valve has a guide for it

Look it up on steam community I’m afk right now

[dull surge]

try sudo rm -rf /var/lib/pacman/db.lck

[amber field]

I fixed it don't worry

[reef yarrow]

... solved

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[reef yarrow]

@amber field say how you fixed it