[SOLVED] could not fully load metadata for package pacman-5.2.1-6.0

my pacman package got messed up over a year ago, and i can't remember what i had to do to fix it. i think i extracted a package by hand. anyway, for the past year and a half or so..
Code:pacman -Sdd pacman
looking for conflicting packages...
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/local/pacman-5.2.1-6.0/desc: No such file or directory
warning: could not fully load metadata for package pacman-5.2.1-6.0
error: failed to prepare transaction (invalid or corrupted package)i can install upgrade everything else using the Code:--ignore pacman