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bmike1

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Registered: 2021-09-08

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compile pacman

I want to install a persistent Arch to a USB and then to install it to my computer so I found :
     https://www.sebastian-lechner.info/crea … usb-stick/
and it wants me to use pacman. No problem. I will compile it! So I found:
     https://archlinux.org/pacman/
and thought that the readme in in the package would tell me how to build it. So I wget it and then cd into it and gedit README and discovered there are no instructions. So I inspected the pacman directory more closely to see if a makefile was in there but to my dismay it is not. So how in the world does one build it.

Last edited by bmike1 (2021-09-08 16:30:31)

kokoko3k

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Re: compile pacman

Not sure if it is enough for you, but for every Arch package, there is a PKGBUILD; pacman is not an exception:
https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/pacman/
https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-p … cman/trunk
https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-p … k/PKGBUILD

Last edited by kokoko3k (2021-09-08 16:38:51)

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Slithery

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Re: compile pacman

Read the pacman page that you linked to.

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Trilby

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Re: compile pacman

It might be easier to just to make a live usb, then once booted into the live environment, you can (re)format the USB and install as-per normal.

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bmike1

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Re: compile pacman

It might be easier to just to make a live usb, then once booted into the live environment, you can (re)format the USB and install as-per normal.

But that isn't the point. I want to select which packages get installed

bmike1

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Re: compile pacman

well that was easy.... apt knows about pacman....

Trilby

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Re: compile pacman

Clearly you've never installed arch before.  You *do* select which packages get installed.  And you use pacman to do so.

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