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pacrepairdb — Fix corrupted database entries in libalpm database. More information: <https://github.com/andrewgreg

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Problem

How to use the pacrepairdb command: Fix corrupted database entries in libalpm database. More information: <https://github.com/andrewgregory/pacutils/blob/master/doc/pacrepairdb.pod>.

Solution

pacrepairdb — Fix corrupted database entries in libalpm database. More information: <https://github.com/andrewgregory/pacutils/blob/master/doc/pacrepairdb.pod>.

Perform a basic repair on a specific package:

pacrepairdb {{package_name}}

Update the database entries without extracting or removing any packages:

pacrepairdb {{package_name}} --dbonly

Display the packages to be repaired and the cache packages to be used without making any changes:

pacrepairdb {{package_name}} --print-only

Display additional progress and debug information:

pacrepairdb {{package_name}} --verbose

Display help:

pacrepairdb --help

Display version:

pacrepairdb --version

Code Snippets

Perform a basic repair on a specific package

pacrepairdb {{package_name}}

Update the database entries without extracting or removing any packages

pacrepairdb {{package_name}} --dbonly

Display the packages to be repaired and the cache packages to be used without making any changes

pacrepairdb {{package_name}} --print-only

Display additional progress and debug information

pacrepairdb {{package_name}} --verbose

Display help

pacrepairdb --help

Context

tldr-pages: linux/pacrepairdb

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