how to download pacman packages for offline installation

avarionist · 2010-06-17 04:05:08

I have the misfortune of having a broadcom wifi card and yes its my only wireless/internet connection. my question is ' is there any way to download a pacman package for offline installation and if not how would i install b43-fwcutter offline in arch ?

fsckd · 2010-06-17 04:14:13

Yes, go to a mirror site, download the package, transfer it to your machine, install using the -U option in pacman.

avarionist · 2010-06-17 04:17:41

thanks for the info but im having trouble locating any mirror sites

googling this "b43-fwcutter pacman offline download" didnt seem to turn up any mirrors
is there a repo site for pacman ?<-- curious
after i get wireless installed i should be fine... hopefully

Anikom15 · 2010-06-17 04:18:39

look in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

Cookie · 2010-06-17 04:46:27

Using this code will download the package without installing it

pacman -Sw b43-fwcutter

and you can install it with

pacman -U b43-fwcutter

Also mirror list and status can be found at https://www.archlinux.de/?page=MirrorStatus

Last edited by Cookie (2010-06-17 04:48:35)

avarionist · 2010-06-17 04:50:30

thanks found a mirror
one last question though
in arch do i have to install dependecies one by one or are they automatically found.
in any case what would be the command to check for the required dependecies ?

Inxsible · 2010-06-17 04:59:12

avarionist wrote:

thanks found a mirror
one last question though
in arch do i have to install dependecies one by one or are they automatically found.
in any case what would be the command to check for the required dependecies ?

If you have the network access, they are automatically found for you. But if you don't, you should find out all the dependencies of a particular package and then download each one and then install them "in order", so that the package that you are actually trying to install, can be installed.

The command would be (from any arch machine which has network access

 sudo pacman -Ss <package-name>

It will list all the dependencies, as long as they are not installed on your machine already.

Last edited by Inxsible (2010-06-17 05:00:26)

avarionist · 2010-06-17 05:19:22

Thanks guys thats all i needed.
the wifi was the only reason i didnt install arch before because you and i can both imagine installing a desktop enviroment offline depend by depend.

tomk · 2010-06-17 05:50:10

Inxsible wrote:

The command would be (from any arch machine which has network access
 sudo pacman -Ss <package-name>

-Ss is the search command - it does not list dependencies. You need -Si for that.

Inxsible · 2010-06-17 11:57:45

D'oh !! you are right ! I actually meant pacman -Si

Last edited by Inxsible (2010-06-17 11:58:14)

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how to download pacman packages for offline installation

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