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Mardukas

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From: Lithuania

Registered: 2007-08-05

Posts: 121

Request: automaticly install missing dependencies

When I do makepkg -c, sometimes it shows missing dependencies, so pacman could automaticaly install them, because writing pacman -S dependency isn't fun.

dolby

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From: 1992

Registered: 2006-08-08

Posts: 1,581

Re: Request: automaticly install missing dependencies

try yaourt or aurbuild

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stonecrest

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From: Boulder

Registered: 2005-01-22

Posts: 1,190

Re: Request: automaticly install missing dependencies

Or try reading the makepkg manual.

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Mardukas

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From: Lithuania

Registered: 2007-08-05

Posts: 121

Re: Request: automaticly install missing dependencies

Reading - the thing I hate. ;/
edit: ok, thank you.

Or try reading the makepkg manual.

-s, --syncdeps
              Install missing dependencies using pacman. When missing build-time or run-time dependencies are found, pacman will try to resolve them.
              If successful, the missing packages will be downloaded and installed.

Nice.

Last edited by Mardukas (2007-08-07 22:42:43)

cems

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Registered: 2007-08-12

Posts: 13

Re: Request: automaticly install missing dependencies

"makepkg -s" installs the dependencies for package foo, but if I run "pacman -Rs foo" those dependencies are not removed.

I tried to remove the dependencies after compiling foo and before installing it with "pacman -U foo", but then pacman complains about missing dependencies and does not automatically installs them.

Is there a way to make recursive remotion work with local abs?

Thank you.

xaw

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From: Chapel Hill

Registered: 2007-08-09

Posts: 177

Re: Request: automaticly install missing dependencies

Hi there,

I don't know if this answers your question, but pacman has the --cascading option which (sometimes) helps to remove all dependencies of your example package foo without affecting other packages (for example if two packages depended on many libraries, but both depended on a common one, pacman will not remove that library)

just pacman -Rcs foo and see if this is your desired effect you are looking for

Cheers

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Cerebral

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From: Waterloo, ON, CA

Registered: 2005-04-08

Posts: 3,108

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Re: Request: automaticly install missing dependencies

Well, the problem would be that pacman used to have an undocumented option (-D) to mark packages as "installed as a dep" even when they were explicitly installed -- makepkg used this option.  This undocumented option was removed in pacman 3 and makepkg changed to use a regular pacman -S operation, which installs the deps as "explicitly installed", and causes the issue.

They're planning on doing an option to pacman -S to duplicate the -D option (something like --asdep or something) but it's not in there yet.

cems

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Registered: 2007-08-12

Posts: 13

Re: Request: automaticly install missing dependencies

That would be great! I don't know exactly how pacman works, but portage (gentoo package manager) keeps a list of explicitly installed packages in a text file, so we can edit it. Meanwhile, can we do something similar with pacman?

Thank you