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Since i cannot use my vodafone usb modem on my new arch install... i asked a friend to download all pacman packages from a arch mirror...
How can i use them on my machine... i copied all files to "/var/cache/pacman/pkg" but it seems not to work...
How can i update pacman database to use this local files???
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What you need to do is create a local repo, eg;
mkdir /home/vdias/local_repo
cp /var/cache/pacman/pkg/*.pkg.tar.gz /home/vdas/local_repo
cd /home/vdias/local_repo
repo-add /home/vdias/local_repo.db.tar.gz *.pkg.tar.gz
then add
[local_repo]
file:///home/vdias/local_repo
to /etc/pacman.conf above the entry for [core] and then run pacman -Syy to refresh the pacman database. If you don't have a net connection you may want to comment out the entries for [core], [extra] and [community] for now. Just remember to run a 'pacman -Sy' if you add them back in later.
After this you should be able to install any of the packages your friend downloaded using normal 'pacman -S some_package' commands
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It worked... Thankz a lot!
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One thing I forgot to add, if you get your network up and running you probably want to remove the entry for the local repo in /etc/pacman.conf and run pacman -Syy
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It created the local_repo without problems... and installed some pkg without problem... but now i wanted to install gnome and it gives me dependency errors...
Seems that pacman cannot find the dependency pkg... but they are there for sure...
Any other solution?
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Since i cannot use my vodafone usb modem on my new arch install
Have you tried to fix that? AFAIK others are using Arch with similar devices.
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vdias wrote:Since i cannot use my vodafone usb modem on my new arch install
Have you tried to fix that? AFAIK others are using Arch with similar devices.
Yeap... I tried everything... and no solution... wvdial cannot find carrier...
GGGRRRR!!!
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Pyther i started to do that... but is a pain in the ass... find the real name of all packages... and after install... boring... but doing it...
Anyone can recommend a cheap router that works with the fuc#$&$ usb vodafone modem?
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