New Install Pacman Trouble

[u/Seific]

hey all, im brand new to linux and decided to start with endeavour OS. I got everything installed but now pacman does not work for installation (see attached image). I cant find anything about this online, any help would be appreciated!! (its a pic of my monitor because firefox keeps crashing and I cant install a different browser)

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✓ Terminal error log detected - Text extraction complete!

<sup>--- [Image 1] --- bash: /usr/bin/yay: Input/output error error: you cannot perform this operation unless you are root. `error: failed to synchronize all databases (no servers configured for repository</sup>) ^(error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Error reading fd 6) ^(error: target not found: vivaldi) ^(error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Error reading fd 6) ^(error: failed to prepare transaction (invalid or corrupted database)) ^( ) ^(--- [Image 2] ---) ^(bash: /usr/bin/yay: Input/output error) ^(error: you cannot perform this operation unless you are root.) ^(error: failed to synchronize all databases (no servers configured for repository)) ^(error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Error reading fd 6) ^(error: target not found: vivaldi) ^(error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Error reading fd 6) ^(error: failed to prepare transaction (invalid or corrupted database)`)

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[u/jeroenim0]

You are running from a USB stick, is that intentional? liveuser is not when you boot from a fresh installation, and installation has to be done before you start updating you system.

Install first then reboot in you freshly installed system, and then you can start updating ;-)

[u/mi_mikyu]

did you run reflector?

[u/Bruceplanet]

Run from the installation not the usb. Also use Sudo.

[u/DDigambar → u/Bruceplanet]

1. Reboot and start with the fresh Installation and then - yay don't like sudo, better use sudo pacman