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authorPinapelz <yukais@pinapelz.com>2024-05-06 22:14:34 -0700
committerPinapelz <yukais@pinapelz.com>2024-05-06 22:14:34 -0700
commitbe2957c8a212b13a131cc5b52f0c496c4be49482 (patch)
tree78c109b2a3e65e6e3de8de7cfd9848df344121fc /src
parent3b3d9ed0d5f166e5752140ed834f404697bd6cf0 (diff)
Fix: Recovering from an interrupted pacman upgrade - formatting
- Fix newline formatting
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diff --git a/src/content/blog/recovering-interrupted-pacman-upgrade.md b/src/content/blog/recovering-interrupted-pacman-upgrade.md
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--- a/src/content/blog/recovering-interrupted-pacman-upgrade.md
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@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ Lucky for us, since Linux distros can generally run off of a Live-USB environmen
# Steps
1. Boot into Live USB environment and mount drives
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Once you've booted into the Live-USB, I reccomend getting Ethernet hooked up. Sometimes there can be corrupted packages left in the `.cache`, so those need to be redownloaded. You can use WiFi, but sometimes there are issues with connecting via Live USB.
Identify the drive/partition with your OS installed (where the root directory is) and mount it
@@ -39,6 +40,7 @@ sudo arch-chroot /mnt
and now every command we run will be like as if we were actually on the broken system.
3. Re-install all packages
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Pacman actually maintains a database of what packages it has installed. So we can pipe this information into another pacman command to ask it to re-install everything.
You could also triage the broken packages by verifying the checksum of each one and then individually uninstalling or re-installing it, but I think for the most part its far easier to just ask it to re-install everything (also dependency issues really mess this up)
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