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#1 2006-01-05 22:26:14
- M6
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Installing Pacman to another Distro
Hi,
I like pacman so much just thinking whether it is possible to install it to another distro ?
Ben
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#2 2006-01-05 22:37:09
- ozar
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Re: Installing Pacman to another Distro
Other distros have installed pacman.
I think Frugalware uses it, and I'm sure Rubix Linux uses, it. I'm not sure about what others, but maybe Underground Linux uses it, too.
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#3 2006-01-05 22:45:46
- murffatksig
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Re: Installing Pacman to another Distro
I'm sure you could, but it might take some tweaking to get it to work properly.
What distros were you thinking of installing in on?
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#4 2006-01-05 22:59:47
- poetofnumbers
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Re: Installing Pacman to another Distro
Pacman is wonderful. However, other distros would need repos that pacman could read. This is the primary problem. Without the repos, your idea is dead on arrival.
Sweet, now I can play with myself.
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#5 2006-01-05 23:31:33
- T-Dawg
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Re: Installing Pacman to another Distro
yes you can. just extract the source and do .configure make make install. But as others pointed out it's useless without the proper repos.
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#6 2006-01-06 15:53:02
- jakob
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Re: Installing Pacman to another Distro
wouldn't it be possible to just use the arch repos?
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#7 2006-01-06 15:58:12
- sudman1
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Re: Installing Pacman to another Distro
I'v thought about this - you can install packman and use the arch repos and asymilate your current setup - but you'd probably have to force the installs.
v/r
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#8 2006-01-06 15:58:21
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Re: Installing Pacman to another Distro
Then you have to make sure your distro uses the same directory structure etc - e.g. if they don't have opt/<smthng>/bin in their path, that would be a problem.
Why not get in touch with the frugalware and/or rubix folks and ask them what they did? You'd probably get more useful answers.
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#9 2006-01-06 16:23:47
- Dusty
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Re: Installing Pacman to another Distro
I'm really curious as to *why* you would want to use it with another distro, *unless* the distro was designed to do it (ie: htose listed above). Using pacman in debian distros, for example, makes no sense to me -- what's wrong with apt-get. Similarly for rpm based distros. Fedora has that syncing program, whatever it was called, and SuSe has something too.... why pacman?
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#10 2006-01-06 19:18:44
- arooaroo
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Re: Installing Pacman to another Distro
Dusty, those distros may have their own pacman equivs, but that doesn't mean that they are as powerful/easy to use.
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#11 2006-01-06 19:41:34
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Re: Installing Pacman to another Distro
Maybe I'm wrong, but I think one shouldn't try to use pacman with any distro that wasn't designed to use it, that is unless you really like breaking your system and trying to fix it again. I'd think there would be plenty of opportunities where breakage might happen.
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