install package in specific path

kamrava · 2014-04-22 16:12:50

Can we install a package via Pacman in specific path ?

Last edited by kamrava (2014-04-22 16:58:35)

Inxsible · 2014-04-22 17:28:44

Not if you are going to use the pre-built packages from the repo. You have to do your own building from ABS in order to change anything for the repo packages just like you build packages from source when you install anything from AUR

demaio · 2014-04-22 17:41:38

You can, however, install packages into a different root with:

pacman --root <path>

Inxsible · 2014-04-22 17:50:09

demaio wrote:

You can, however, install packages into a different root with:
pacman --root <path>

Not quite what the OP wants to do however.

man pacman wrote:

-r, --root <path>
Specify an alternative installation root (default is /). This should not be used as a way to install software into /usr/local instead of /usr. This option is used if you want to install a package on a temporary mounted partition that is "owned" by another system. NOTE: if database path or logfile are not specified on either the command line or in pacman.conf(5), their default location will be inside this root path.

In short don't use -r, unless you have chrooted into mounted your system externally to fix a bootup issue etc.

demaio · 2014-04-22 18:01:29

Inxsible wrote:

demaio wrote:
You can, however, install packages into a different root with:
pacman --root <path>
Not quite what the OP wants to do however.

Was not sure about this because of the OP's short description.

Inxsible wrote:

In short don't use -r, unless you have chrooted into your system to fix a bootup issue etc.

I thought pacman -r has to be used from _outside_ of a chroot (e.g. broken system mounted to /mnt/temp), like you said, from another boot medium etc.

Inxsible · 2014-04-22 18:06:54

fixed... was thinking of chroot as a means to fix bootup issues and mis-typed I guess.

Jristz · 2014-04-22 21:54:01

So if -r is that discouraged as -f... why -f was removed (in favor of --force) but -r remain there????

Other option is rebuild the decire package and point in the PKGBUILD the path that you wan to use

Inxsible · 2014-04-22 22:07:48

Jristz wrote:

So if -r is that discouraged as -f... why -f was removed (in favor of --force) but -r remain there????
Other option is rebuild the decire package and point in the PKGBUILD the path that you wan to use

No one said its discouraged. I don't know where you got that idea. You just have to use it in the correct scenario. The OPs scenario was not correct for the use of -r

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install package in specific path

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