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     to <a href="https://mirror.archlinux32.org/pentium4/">Archlinux32</a>, follow
     these steps:</p>
     <ul>
-        <li> Put <code>Server=https://archive.archlinux32.org/repos/2020/01/01/$arch/$repo</code> as sole mirror into <code>/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist</code>.</li>
+        <li> Put <code>Server=https://archive.archlinux32.org/repos/2020/01/01/$arch/$repo</code> as sole mirror into <code>/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist</code>.
+            <ul>
+                <li>Note, that it is not necessary to use the archive, if one uses a recent pacman-static (see "Fixing broken pacman" below for details on how to obtain it).</li>
+            </ul>
+        </li>
         <li> Execute <code>pacman -Syy archlinux32-keyring-transition</code> to install our keyring transition package signed by one of the x86_64 archlinux devs.</li>
         <li> Run <code>pacman -Syuu</code> to update to a state, when pacman was capable of installing zstd-compressed packages.
         <li> Put any mirror from <a href="https://git.archlinux32.org/packages/plain/core/pacman-mirrorlist/mirrorlist">our mirrorlist</a>
              into <code>/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist</code>.</li>
         <li> Run <code>pacman -Syuu</code> for a full transition to the most recent state.
             <ul>
-                <li> Note, that packages found in your package cache won't match the signatures from archlinux32 - either allow pacman to delete these cached packages or run <code>pacman -Sc</code> to clean your cache before you start and after you finish upgrading.</li>
+                <li> Note, that packages found in your package cache won't match the signatures from Archlinux32 - either allow pacman to delete these cached packages or run <code>pacman -Sc</code> to clean your cache before you start and after you finish upgrading.</li>
             </ul>
         </li>
     </ul>
 
+    <h3>Fixing broken pacman</h3>
+    If pacman is unable to work properly (due to partial upgrade, broken libraries, missing compression support, etc.), there are two possibilities to fix it:
+    <ul>
+        <li> Boot a recent live medium, mount the broken system on <code>/mnt</code> and use <code>pacman --sysroot /mnt ...</code> to reinstall/update the broken/outdated packages.</li>
+        <li> Install <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pacman-static/#pinned-666894">pacman-static</a> (either from the <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pacman-static/">AUR</a> before breaking the system or the <a href="https://pkgbuild.com/~eschwartz/repo/i686-extracted/pacman-static">extracted binary compiled by Eli Schwartz</a> if your system is already broken) and use <code>pacman-static</code> in place of <code>pacman</code> to reinstall/update the broken/outdated packages.</li>
+    </ul>
+
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