### System details

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X, NVIDIA RTX 3070, 32GB RAM, kernel 7.1.9-arch1-2, omarchy 4.0.2-1, installed from the Omarchy ISO (offline install)

### What's wrong?

On the first boot after an offline-ISO install, every entry in the Install menu fails. Picking `Install → 1Password`:

```
Installing 1Password...
warning: database file for 'core' does not exist (use '-Sy' to download)
warning: database file for 'extra' does not exist (use '-Sy' to download)
warning: database file for 'multilib' does not exist (use '-Sy' to download)
warning: database file for 'omarchy' does not exist (use '-Sy' to download)
error: target not found: 1password
error: target not found: 1password-cli
```

**Cause**

The ISO installs every package from a repo named `offline` — from `/var/log/omarchy-install.log`:

```
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 offline downloading...
```

The resulting system's `/etc/pacman.conf` lists `core`, `extra`, `multilib` and `omarchy`, but their sync databases are never downloaded. `/var/lib/pacman/sync/` on first boot contains only a stale `offline.db`, whose repo section no longer exists in `pacman.conf`. So pacman has nothing to resolve package names against.

`omarchy-pkg-add` — which every Install-menu entry funnels through — installs without refreshing:

```bash
# /usr/share/omarchy/bin/omarchy-pkg-add
sudo pacman -S --noconfirm --needed "$@" || exit 1
```

and `grep -rn -- "-Sy" /usr/share/omarchy/bin/` returns nothing, so only the update path (`omarchy refresh pacman`) ever populates the databases. Until the user independently runs an update, *every* Install-menu entry fails.

**Reproduce**

1. Install Omarchy 4.0.2 from the ISO (offline install).
2. On first boot, open the Omarchy menu → Install → 1Password (any entry reproduces it).
3. It fails as above.

From my `/var/log/pacman.log`, three failures, then success only after the databases happened to land:

```
19:53:19  pacman -S --noconfirm --needed 1password 1password-cli   <- failed
19:54:01  (same)                                                    <- failed
20:00:50  (same)                                                    <- failed
20:23:58  /var/lib/pacman/sync/ populated with core/extra/multilib
20:39:13  (same command)                                            <- worked
20:40:39  installed 1password (8.12.34-34)
```

**Workaround**

`sudo pacman -Syu` once, after which the Install menu works permanently.

**Suggested fix**

Seed the pacman sync databases at the end of the offline install (or on first run), and/or have `omarchy-pkg-add` refresh when `/var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db` is missing.

**Related**

- #1994 is the same symptom on Omarchy 3.0.1, closed as completed in Oct 2025 — the offline-installer path appears not to be covered.
- #9813 is adjacent but distinct: it argues `-S` risks a *partial upgrade*. Here `-S` cannot succeed at all, because the databases do not exist.