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Old 11-27-2010, 03:54 PM   #1
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Exclamation pacman database error


I tried makign a package for Greenfoot, but it failed and now pacman shows this message every time:

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error: invalid name for database entry 'greenfoot-3'
How do i fix it?
 
Old 11-30-2010, 08:28 AM   #2
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I would guess you have an invalid entry now somewhere in /var/lib/pacman/ named greenfoot-3. Move or delete that.

You can try and get more info with pacman using the --debug flag.
 
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Fixed!

I just didn't know that the database was in /var/lib/pacman.
 
  


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