getting packages from the repos

hugin · 2006-05-19 19:17:06

OK, here's the deal. I'm dual booting Arch and Win2k on my Dell 600m laptop. The modem does work with the slmodem stuff and I can get it working; I've gotten it working in everything from Gentoo to Debian. The problem is I can't get the package. I've looked all over the wiki and here, and can't find a way to get a package with an external program, or from a seperate machine.

Previously, on Gentoo, I could do this with a pretend fetch and it would spit out the urls. A little sed magic and I had a nice list to pipe into wget on my 2k install. Is there a similar solution?

I have found the slmodem package page from the main arch site, but couldn't find a way to download the arch package from anywhere; I could only find the source. I wanted to keep this as an arch package, as I am new and have not learned the ins and outs of the ABS.

I'm a sole linux user for 3+ years (despite my dual-boot, college course needed software that only worked on win, and no wine) just to give you a basis of my knowledge.

Any guidence would be most appreciated. Thank you.

Cerebral · 2006-05-19 19:23:54

From man pacman:

SYNC OPTIONS
...
     -p, --print-uris
              Print  out URIs for each package that will be installed, includ-
              ing any dependencies that have yet to be installed.   These  can
              be  piped to a file and downloaded at a later time, using a pro-
              gram like wget.

Basically, pacman -Sp pkgname will give you the URL.

Alternatively, you can browse to ftp://www.archlinux.org and search the package tree there for the packages you need.

hugin · 2006-05-19 19:52:02

Thanks, don't know how I missed it, I read the man page like 4 times.

anyhow, thanks for the info, and the friendly response.

/jhs

Cerebral · 2006-05-19 20:26:10

hugin wrote:

anyhow, thanks for the info, and the friendly response.

Glad to be of assistance; I've had times where I've reviewed something a few times and completely missed an important section somehow; I know the feeling.

Welcome to Arch!

ScriptDevil · 2006-05-20 09:43:19

Cerebral wrote:

hugin wrote:
anyhow, thanks for the info, and the friendly response.
Glad to be of assistance; I've had times where I've reviewed something a few times and completely missed an important section somehow; I know the feeling.
Welcome to Arch!

Murphy's law never goes wrong,

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#1 2006-05-19 19:17:06

getting packages from the repos

#2 2006-05-19 19:23:54

Re: getting packages from the repos

#3 2006-05-19 19:52:02

Re: getting packages from the repos

#4 2006-05-19 20:26:10

Re: getting packages from the repos

#5 2006-05-20 09:43:19

Re: getting packages from the repos

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