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Jacek Poplawski

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From: Poland

Registered: 2006-01-10

Posts: 736

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Cache

Packages which I am downloading from repositories are cached on disk.
Let's say I now want to install Arch Linux on another computer.
How to avoid downloading?
How can I use already downloaded packages when doing -S ?

rezza

Member

From: Edinburgh, uk

Registered: 2004-07-08

Posts: 237

Re: Cache

just copy the appropriate .tar.gz files from /var/cache/pacman/pkg/

EDIT: typo

tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Cache

Well, it's not quite that simple. Copying over the tarballs will allow you to do pacman -A on each package, but that does not check and install dependencies the way -S does.

There are a couple of relevant wiki pages here and here.

brain0

Developer

From: Aachen - Germany

Registered: 2005-01-03

Posts: 1,382

Re: Cache

You're wrong. If you copy the tarballs to /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ (on the new system) then pacman -S will look there before it tries to download them.
So the suggested solution will work.

tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Cache

Nice one, brain - I didn't know that.

Thanks.