`sh archfi` returns blank command prompt

[fbmoose48]

sh archfi returns blank command prompt instead of starting the ncurses installer. not sure what's the cause.

[SandiestGirl]

Just ran in to this myself. It's hard to tell since when the script fails it clears the terminal. In my case glibc was not already installed on the arch install media.

pacman -S glibc

My install media was also a little bit old so if pacman complains about bad PGP keys then just refresh the keyring.

pacman -S archlinux-keyring

Should do the trick!

Edit: You may ALSO find that the ncurses installer will launch but none of the menus will be functional, in which case try actually installing ncurses, what a concept!

pacman -S ncurses