[SOLVED] pacman/packer command to install readily built packages

medicineman25 · 2016-10-23 06:40:03

I have been installing etherpad-lite for two days now. It's going on my rasbpi to make a basic online collaborative editor. Problem is that the build takes FOOOOOOREEEEEEEEEVER!!!!! Which in of itself is not a surprise or a problem, but every time I have tried to install the package I either miss the timeout for entering my password or I fuck up the password and it defaults to a failed build (that's insanely frustrating just btw, would like to see that changed to a 3-strike policy)...

Is there a command to just install a package that is already built, rather than making it rebuilt again and again.

I have looked through the manual and can't find anything, the closest thing I found was the -w flag which downloads but does not install. Surely there would be a flag to install in a scenario where this type of -w option would have been used just prior.

In fact I know there must be, because for some crazy mother-effing reason, we here at Arch just leave shit like that out all the time. Despite our actually awesome community and seemingly diligent documentation methods, we still do this. Don't know why. Don't care. Just want a solution

Thanks in advance,
MedicineMan25

Last edited by medicineman25 (2016-10-23 06:53:48)

jasonwryan · 2016-10-23 06:43:29

It is in the manual, it is also on the wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … l_commands

medicineman25 · 2016-10-23 06:53:21

Well I'll be... I did not see that.

Wasn't here:

https://www.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman.8.html#UO

I suppose that information is why we have the wiki.

Thanks!!

jasonwryan · 2016-10-23 06:54:30

That's because it is further up: https://www.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman … operations

medicineman25 · 2016-10-23 07:08:55

haha yyyyep!!! ... like I said; blind...

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[SOLVED] pacman/packer command to install readily built packages

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