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biebo

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Registered: 2020-01-14

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How define install path for pacman and "makepkg si" installations

Hi,

I mostly use 'pacman -S' and occasionally 'AUR' to install new software. My main partition where Archlinux is installed is getting full. I would like to install my new software in some other disk space partition (to avoid) storage issues. How do I set my install path?

Also is there any way I can migrate my currently installed applications to this other partition?

Thanks!
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schard

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Re: How define install path for pacman and "makepkg si" installations

1) pacman determines by the packet's file list where these are going to be installed. The FHS is pretty clear about where certain types of files have to be installed to. This is not Windows, where it's up to the user to install a program's files into arbitrary locations.
2) Yes, repartition.

Last edited by schard (2020-03-30 07:59:07)

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Trilby

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Re: How define install path for pacman and "makepkg si" installations

Better yet, figure out why it's "getting full" or what's filling it up.  Fix the problem, don't just buy a little more time.  How are your partitions currently  set up?  What's using up the space on the root fs?

And what does this mean:

I mostly use 'pacman -S' and occasionally 'AUR' to install new software.

Is 'AUR' referring to a specific tool?  If you use `makepkg -si` as indicated in the title, this is still using pacman.  But the troublesome part of this is the "mostly".  How else are you installing new software and why?

Last edited by Trilby (2020-03-30 13:26:42)

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