Arch Linux

queenmedley

Member

From: Busan / S.Korea Busan

Registered: 2005-06-15

Posts: 68

how to install or update pkg in arch64??

I installed arch64 a few days ago with arch64 ISO, Duke.
I have a question.....
When I want to install or update package, for example xawtv,
the commed "pacman -Sy xawtv" right???
I worry about installing 32bits xawtv on my arch64.

And....
My computer home is not conneted to internet..
So I have to copy xawtv pkg from office to my computer.
But I cound't find xawtv 64bits pkg on webserver.
How   can I do???

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- Queen Medley

Borosai

Member

From: Sandy Appendix, U.S.A.

Registered: 2006-06-15

Posts: 227

Re: how to install or update pkg in arch64??

You can use pacman -Sy if you haven't synced your database, or just pacman -S if you have.

I just checked, and xawtv is available in the extra repository.

extra/xawtv 3.95-1
    Is a simple Xaw-based TV program which uses the bttv driver or video4linux.

Are you using arch64 at your office? If so, you can run the following command to download the necessary files (/var/cache/pacman/pkg/) without installing them.

# pacman -Sw xawtv
resolving dependencies... done.

Targets: lesstif-0.95.0-2  libdv-1.0.0-1  zvbi-0.2.25-1  libfs-1.0.0-1  xawtv-3.95-1

Then you can transfer them to your home computer and install them with:

pacman -U <package name>

If you don't have arch64 at work, you will probably need to download the packages (including all dependencies listed above) manually from the repository, but the installation should be the same.

I'm not very experienced with this, so hopefully someone else will correct or confirm what I've written here.

AndyRTR

Developer

From: Magdeburg/Germany

Registered: 2005-10-07

Posts: 1,641

Re: how to install or update pkg in arch64??

confirmed.

make sure you do not install any 32bit packages. when using a browser or wget to download from the mirrors make sure you are located in {repo}/os/x86_64/foo.pgk.tag.gz