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promitheas

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Registered: 2019-02-24

Posts: 38

Checking keys in keyring fails when trying to do offline install

Hey everyone. When trying to install offline from custom repo on usb stick, at the end when its at the stage where it checks the keys in keyring, I get multiple occurrences of

error: key "some-key" could not be looked up remotely

I followed the instructions in this wiki article to create the custom repo. The exact commands I ran are:

cd offline-packages
mkdir /tmp/blankdb
pacman -Syw --cachedir . --dbpath /tmp/blankdb base base-devel linux linux-firmware git dkms mkinitcpio vim
repo-add ./custom.db.tar.gz ./*[^sig]

offline-packages is a directory on the usb stick, so now I should have the "repo" on there. Then I unmount, plug into the other pc, mount to /home (my partitions are mounted in /mnt) and edit the pacman.conf as stated in the offline install guide except for pointing it to the /home/offline-packages/ directory. Then I try to run the pacstrap command as such:

pacstrap -K /mnt base base-devel linux linux-firmware mkinitcpio vim git dkms

That's where I get the errors I stated above, and noving gets installed it seems.

Would appreciate any help, as I've tried searching the internet and this forum but couldn't find anything.

Thanks!

Last edited by promitheas (2023-07-03 22:43:11)