I've accidentally deleted every file in my /usr/include directory... how do I get them back

[heady oasis]

I'm on Manjaro. I've tried running pacman -Qq | pacman -S - , and it says 'installing', but it doesn't actually put any packages back into the directory.

[royal mantle]

you should probably do that using a liveiso and pacstrap

[heady oasis]

I'm not sure what that means

[royal mantle]

how did you installed arch?

[heady oasis]

via Manjaro

[royal mantle]

ohh you are on manjaro

[heady oasis]

yes

[heady oasis]

.

[royal mantle]

do you have that usb with you, by which you installed manjaro

[heady oasis]

I do not

[royal mantle]

you would need one

[heady oasis]

the USB I previously used or
a new one

[royal mantle]

do you have a usb which have any iso flashed?

[heady oasis]

possibly, I have a few usbs floating around. I'd have to find them though. Does it matter that its specifically Manjaro though?

[fossil wharf]

@heady oasis no

[sweet verge]

Reasons to not use Manjaro:
• https://github.com/arindas/manjarno
• https://www.hadet.dev/Manjaro-Bad
• https://rentry.co/manjaro-controversies
• https://averagelinuxuser.com/manjaro-review

[fossil wharf]

@heady oasis any linux os will work

[heady oasis]

alright

what do you want me to do with it? After I find one

[fossil wharf]

boot into it

[heady oasis]

and after that?

[royal mantle]

just mount your manjaro partition

and install the packages through pacstrap

[royal mantle]

you would need to install some package related to arch-install-scripts according to the distro you choose

[topaz quartz]

then why the fuck have you got the arch tag?

you surely read #readme-support-access ?

that command is wrong by the way:
pacman -Qq | pacman -S -
I'll give you the link so you can find the correct the tag once you change the thread tag to adhere to rules of the server.

and I have no idea why you'd need to be in the live ISO for this, but it should still work for native packages, for any aur packages you'll want to be booted up as normal.

[topaz quartz]

ahh this is why you're doing that. Why is @royal mantle saying the live ISO is needed?

[royal mantle]

Removal of usr directory should break the system packages right?

[topaz quartz]

ohhh shit

[bitter cargo]

I think he is saying it bcz, from live iso you can go into root parition and add missing packages, this could poosible using bind some crucial process

[topaz quartz]

that's the stuff for compiling packages

[royal mantle]

If certain libraries are not working it's better to just pacstrap the base as it will get those libraries back

[topaz quartz]

yeah you're right, sorry and thanks @royal mantle

[low mango]

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[topaz quartz]

still there's a missing flag from the command that they wanted to execute, so, once they change the support thread to have the correct tag, I'll give them the command they need

[topaz quartz]

presumably what they'll need to do is get a list in chroot of their packages, which they can write to a location, then call pacstrap on the packages, question is will pacstrap preserve the installation type of the package (explicit or implicit)

unless base will be enough?

if base contains everything they need then they can just do the correct pacman command after pacstrapping that

[royal mantle]

Ig base will be enough to have a working system. After that they can boot normally and have remaining packages installed via pacman itself.

Not sure how pacman gets the list of installed packages, if it gets them via some other var directory, they can generate the PKG list and install them via pacman

[fossil wharf]

@royal mantle pacman -Q

or pacman -Qq for it not to show version numbers

[royal mantle]

Ik the command, I am not sure how pacman get that list, whether it queries the local db or reads the pacman/pkg directory

[topaz quartz]

I believe it doesn’t get it from /usr/include because I renamed a file there and then reinstalled the package for the file, which put the file back there again

[topaz quartz]

@heady oasis ?

[heady oasis]

Hello

[topaz quartz]

have you just abandoned your improperly tagged help thread?

[heady oasis]

I have not, I’ve been busy with life?

Thank you to the people who helped me with the issue, I’m having MORE issues with Manjaro now, and I’ve decided that I’m going to nuke this and use another distro

[topaz quartz]

recommend using vanilla arch

[heady oasis]

@topaz quartz sorry to have “inconvenienced” you to the point where you’re cursing me out for making a simple mistake… I dunno why you’re acting so unfriendly and rude 🙄

How do I close my ticket?

[topaz quartz]

because you have the support role but you refuse to follow the support rules, they're in #readme-support-access , and I offered you help for your issue if you actually changed the tag, but instead you seem to have just abandoned the thread.

[topaz quartz]

change the title to start with [abandoned] and then right click on it and select close

[heady oasis]

Right but, surely you realize there’s better ways to do that? Than to be rude?