Never install anything without Pacman. The PKGBUILD system is simple and anything that you need to install can be installed with it. You do not want a large number of untracked files cluttering your system. They will only lead to problems with future installations, upgrades and removals.
Or if you must install something manually, make sure it installs to /usr/local/ since pacman doesn't touch anything under there (at least it shouldn't if PKGBUILD authors are packaging correctly!)
]]>Xyne wrote:breaksand30 wrote:Ah thanks, got it working now. Also, another quick question. Can you install a package from that uncompressed directory?
If you want to update the local database manually, then yes.
If you're asking that because you want to modify something in a package before installing it, then read up about PKGBUILDs and modify the package that way.
Alright thanks. So I could download the .pkg.tar.xz from a mirror site, unxz it, and move all the files where they need to go?
You could, but unless you figure out how to update the local database when doing that, those files will not be tracked by pacman.
Never install anything without Pacman. The PKGBUILD system is simple and anything that you need to install can be installed with it. You do not want a large number of untracked files cluttering your system. They will only lead to problems with future installations, upgrades and removals.
]]>So I could download the .pkg.tar.xz from a mirror site, unxz it, and move all the files where they need to go?
Yes, but it's a bad idea (tm)
]]>breaksand30 wrote:Ah thanks, got it working now. Also, another quick question. Can you install a package from that uncompressed directory?
If you want to update the local database manually, then yes.
If you're asking that because you want to modify something in a package before installing it, then read up about PKGBUILDs and modify the package that way.
Alright thanks. So I could download the .pkg.tar.xz from a mirror site, unxz it, and move all the files where they need to go?
]]>Ah thanks, got it working now. Also, another quick question. Can you install a package from that uncompressed directory?
If you want to update the local database manually, then yes.
If you're asking that because you want to modify something in a package before installing it, then read up about PKGBUILDs and modify the package that way.
]]>tar xf package.pkg.tar.xz
works fine here
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