Yeah I found a wiki article devoted to just this. I satisfied all dependencies and got all the way to the last package... glibc and instead of removing it, I moved the lib dir like a dumbass and now I can't boot. After I spent 6 hours on this. Now I have to start from scratch again.

I mistook a cannot determine ownership of file for a removal. I was only supposed to remove files/dirs that absolutely had no owners. Now I know lol