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microcz

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Registered: 2008-11-08

Posts: 45

Upgrade packages from installation USB

Hi,

I moved harddrive with arch installation from one computer to another one, everything works well, except of networking (second computer has different network card)

What i want to do now, is reinstall/update kernels and drivers from my live arch USB. Is there any chance telling pacman to search for packages on live USB? I don't want to reinstall whole system.

Thank you

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Upgrade packages from installation USB

Edit pacman.conf and tell it to use a location on the pendrive instead of the default

#CacheDir    = /var/cache/pacman/pkg

You can even run

$ sudo pacman -U <kernel and network drivers>.pkg.tar.xz

Last edited by karol (2013-10-07 11:23:05)

cfr

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From: Cymru

Registered: 2011-11-27

Posts: 7,143

Re: Upgrade packages from installation USB

What i want to do now, is reinstall/update kernels and drivers from my live arch USB. Is there any chance telling pacman to search for packages on live USB? I don't want to reinstall whole system.

I'm a little confused.

!) Are you trying to get the latest packages from the repos, while booted into the live environment?

2) Or are you trying to install packages from your installed system's cache, while booted into the live environment?

3) Or are you trying to install packages from the live USB?

Karol's answer addresses (2) but I'm not sure if that's what you were asking.

And why would you need to reinstall the entire system?

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teateawhy

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From: GER

Registered: 2012-03-05

Posts: 1,138

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Re: Upgrade packages from installation USB

Can you establish an internet connection from the live USB?