Do you need internet connection to use pacman? [solved]

viga · 2007-06-12 00:42:04

Yes you do.

Sorry for the dum question,

Do I need to have internet connection to use pacman?

Thanks

The reason I ask is because I need madwifi for my wireless and Arch does not allow me to install this file using pacman -A ......

Last edited by viga (2008-10-29 03:30:58)

lilsirecho · 2007-06-12 00:47:11

Pacman -A will load any package... (pkg.tar.gz) that you have in your cache or local repo.

It must be identified as .pkg .tar.gz with full version info

loserveg · 2007-06-12 00:47:53

well, unless you have the full install cd pacman will need to access the internet to pull the file you require.

if you do have the cd, mount the cd, browse for the file you are looking for and run pacman -A and that should give you what you need.

otherwise you will have to find a way to get the file off the internet or other media.

ataraxia · 2007-06-12 00:47:53

Use pacman -U. I'm not sure -A is still current.

It's certainly possible to install packages this way without Internet.

viga · 2007-06-12 01:02:38

How do I add a package to my cache or local repo? I have the madwifi tar in my home directory, I tried to installed from there and it did not work.

Thanks

ataraxia · 2007-06-12 02:14:10

viga wrote:

How do I add a package to my cache or local repo? I have the madwifi tar in my home directory, I tried to installed from there and it did not work.
Thanks

Why don't you show us what you typed and what the error was?

viga · 2007-06-12 05:35:59

I typed under root pacman -A madwifi.....tar.gz

The error that came back is package name is not valid

tomk · 2007-06-12 05:49:01

As already stated, the tarball must be a correctly-built Arch package - e.g. madwifi-0.9.3-5.pkg.tar.gz, which is the current madwifi module package for kernel26. You cannot install an upstream source tarball with pacman - if that is what you have, you need to use makepkg to create the Arch package first.

lilsirecho · 2007-06-12 05:56:29

As I indicated the ID for the package in the ...pacman -A ......command must include the full version info...

This typically .....arts-1.5.7-1.pkg.tar.gz as an example.

AFAIK madwifi is a PKGBUILD and the install is made with ....pacman -A (complete ID for the package as generated from the PKGBUILD).

This will install the pacman package...typically I copy the ID and paste into the command line.

viga · 2007-06-12 15:23:31

Thanks tomk and lilsirecho,

now I need to figure out how to build the package using PKGBUILD. Any sugestions here?

Thanks again

Ramses de Norre · 2007-06-12 15:41:06

A PKGBUILD is build with makepkg, read the man page and if you still have questions about the usage you can ask them here.
The -A switch for pacman is deprecated, as stated in the man page, use -U instead.

shining · 2007-06-12 15:54:27

Any particular reason for not using the already built package in extra ?
http://archlinux.org/packages/search/?q=madwifi
You can get it from any mirrors, for example :
ftp://ftp.belnet.be/packages/archlinux/ … pkg.tar.gz

Btw, pacman has a feature which might be useful :

pacman -Sp madwifi                                                                                                                        ~
resolving dependencies... done.
http://mir1.archlinuxfr.org/archlinux/extra/os/i686/madwifi-utils-0.9.3.1-1.pkg.tar.gz
http://mir1.archlinuxfr.org/archlinux/extra/os/i686/madwifi-0.9.3.1-1.pkg.tar.gz

madwifi depends on madwifi-utils, so you'll want to download this package too.

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