Pacreset

A recovery program to reset Arch Linux package file permissions

Usage

# Reset all files and directories owned by installed packages
pacreset

# Only reset files and directories under the specified file/directory
pacreset /path/to/file/or/directory

Reset permissions using bootable USB

If you cannot boot Arch Linux because of file permissions, you need to make a bootable USB drive. Then, you need to copy the program to the root partition of Arch Linux on your computer. Mount the root partition and then arch-chroot to that partition. Finally, run the pacreset command to reset all files and directories owned by all packages.

Build

You can download the program from the "Packages" page on GitHub. However, if you want to build the program yourself, first you need to install some dependencies using the following command:

pacman -S cmake pkgconf ninja gcc

Then, you just need to run the build script:

make release

The program is located at build/pacreset

Sponsor

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