[arm-allstar] Installing additional python libraries help - pacman error

[David McGough]

Not sure why the database is missing, but this command will update the 
database and try to get the package:

pacman -Sy python-pip


73, David KB4FXC


On Fri, 3 Apr 2020, "Matt Rhoades via ARM-allstar" wrote:

> Reading around the how to files and the forums here, it seemed as though I
> could install pip with pacman, however I get this error:
> 
> [root at allstar-47727 /]# pacman -S python-pip
> warning: database file for 'hamvoip-RPi4B' does not exist
> error: failed to prepare transaction (could not find database)
> 
> 
> Any direction on this topic would be appreciated.  I'm trying to install
> the requests library for some custom python aviation weather scripting.
> 
> 
> I wanted to validate it was installed, and then tried to update it:
> 
> [root at allstar-47727 /]# pacman -V
> 
>  .--.                  Pacman v5.0.1 - libalpm v10.0.1
> / _.-' .-.  .-.  .-.   Copyright (C) 2006-2016 Pacman Development Team
> \  '-. '-'  '-'  '-'   Copyright (C) 2002-2006 Judd Vinet
>  '--'
>                        This program may be freely redistributed under
>                        the terms of the GNU General Public License.
> 
> [root at allstar-47727 /]# pacman -U
> warning: database file for 'hamvoip-RPi4B' does not exist
> error: no targets specified (use -h for help)
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