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kiguru

Member

Registered: 2007-11-27

Posts: 31

pacman related questions

hi guys
my first question is how i can limite pacman to use only 10kb instead of all bandwidth. so that i can browse while i m upgrading/downloading packages.
and second is if i m downloading gnome-extra package which is meta package it also downloads gnome-games which i dont want to
download.so is there any way i can subtract gnome-games from gnome-extra meta pckage list so that it couldnot be downloaded or installed.

thanx in advance

shining

Pacman Developer

Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: pacman related questions

hi guys
my first question is how i can limite pacman to use only 10kb instead of all bandwidth. so that i can browse while i m upgrading/downloading packages.

IIRC, there is a general solution to do this, some kind of wrapper that allow you to limit the network rate of any app.
But otherwise, you can tell pacman to use wget for example, see this :
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Imp … Using_wget
Then just use the wget option for limiting rate. (man wget, /rate)
(I never tried this, but I think it could work).

and second is if i m downloading gnome-extra package which is meta package it also downloads gnome-games which i dont want to
download.so is there any way i can subtract gnome-games from gnome-extra meta pckage list so that it couldnot be downloaded or installed.

This is on my pacman TODO list.
Make pacman -S gnome-extra --ignore gnome-games work.
--ignore doesn't work currently in this situation

More infos in this thread : http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacm … 10500.html

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pacman roulette : pacman -S $(pacman -Slq | LANG=C sort -R | head -n $((RANDOM % 10)))

alex_anthony

Member

From: UK

Registered: 2007-09-25

Posts: 344

Re: pacman related questions

gnome-extra is a group, so when at first it asks you would you like to install whole content, say no (n) and then it will ask you in turn which packages to install. just say no to gnome games

shining

Pacman Developer

Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: pacman related questions

gnome-extra is a group, so when at first it asks you would you like to install whole content, say no (n) and then it will ask you in turn which packages to install. just say no to gnome games

Indeed, that's a possibility. However, I show in my post on the ML that this is a real PITA in my opinion.

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pacman roulette : pacman -S $(pacman -Slq | LANG=C sort -R | head -n $((RANDOM % 10)))

nj

Member

Registered: 2007-04-06

Posts: 93

Re: pacman related questions

If you don't like changing the XferCommand, you can try running trickle which is in community.

sudo trickle -d 10 pacman -Su

shining

Pacman Developer

Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: pacman related questions

If you don't like changing the XferCommand, you can try running trickle which is in community.

sudo trickle -d 10 pacman -Su

Yes, that's the tool I used in the past and mentioned above, thanks.

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pacman roulette : pacman -S $(pacman -Slq | LANG=C sort -R | head -n $((RANDOM % 10)))