Download packages manually

foxbunny · 2007-07-27 13:30:37

I've moved recently and still haven't got my Internet connection set up. So, I'd like to fetch packages manually from a Windows box at work and install them via pacman -A at home. Can that be done?

EDIT:

I've browsed through the package lists on www.archlinux.org, but there doesn't seem to be a way to actually download the package(s).

Last edited by foxbunny (2007-07-27 13:31:29)

IsSuE · 2007-07-27 13:31:50

Sure, but dependency tracking and downloading will be pain in the ass.
Browse a arch mirror of your choice and download the files.

Last edited by IsSuE (2007-07-27 13:32:59)

harlekin · 2007-07-27 13:35:50

It's possible though time-consuming.

You can choose one mirror, for example ftp.archlinux.org and download the packages manually. But if you have no pacman that can download it manually it can be a mess because of all the dependencies.

As ftp.archlinux.org ist throttled, you may want to chose another mirror. Here's a list:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mirror

foxbunny · 2007-07-27 13:41:41

Okay... Uh, thanks to pacman, I completely forgot those were ftp sites.

I know it's a pain, but that seems to be the only option right now, because my LUG has only one Archer so far (that I know of) and that's me.

miko · 2007-07-27 14:11:25

foxbunny wrote:

I've moved recently and still haven't got my Internet connection set up. So, I'd like to fetch packages manually from a Windows box at work and install them via pacman -A at home. Can that be done?

Why don't you use LiveCD with Archlinux/pacman, and do pacman -Sw packagelist... at work? Then you will get dependencies also.

miko

foxbunny · 2007-07-27 14:37:27

Because the admins at work do not permit that. Can't boot the CD. Don't ask why. (shrug)

Cerebral · 2007-07-27 14:48:28

You know, I've heard this request often enough that it might be worthwhile to make a small tool specifically for downloading pkg files from a mirror - resolve the deps and all that jazz. Subset of pacman's functionality, but written in a portable way that could have binaries produced for any OS supporting standard C++.... hmmmmm...... I'm getting ideas.

foxbunny · 2007-07-27 15:18:34

Cerebral wrote:

'm getting ideas.

Oooh! Excellent! That would be terrific.

miko · 2007-07-27 16:03:46

foxbunny wrote:

Okay... Uh, thanks to pacman, I completely forgot those were ftp sites.
I know it's a pain, but that seems to be the only option right now, because my LUG has only one Archer so far (that I know of) and that's me.

So you need to get the same set of packages which you have on your computer? Try this script to generate URLs of
packages to get:

#!/bin/sh

MIRROR="ftp://ftp.belnet.be/packages/archlinux"
ARCH=i686

for pv in `pacman -Q|tr ' ' -`; do
  package=`echo $pv|cut -f1 -d- `
  version=`echo $pv|cut -f2 -d- `
  repos=`echo /var/lib/pacman/*/$package-$version-*`
  for repopath in /var/lib/pacman/*/$package-$version-* ; do
    repo=`echo $repopath|cut -d/ -f5`
    pvr=`echo $repopath|cut -d/ -f6`
    #Don't want to get packages found in local repository
    if [ "x-$repo" != "x-local" ] ; then
      break
    fi
  done
  # Here is the url
  echo "$MIRROR/$repo/os/$ARCH/$pvr.pkg.tar.gz"
done

Cerebral · 2007-07-27 17:41:51

miko wrote:

So you need to get the same set of packages which you have on your computer? Try this script to generate URLs of
packages to get:

pacman has a command-line flag to spit out the URLs instead of downloading the files... I think it's -Sp. Check the manpage (I would, but I'm at work and don't have access to pacman here)

You could do something like this:

#!/bin/sh

pacman -Sy

for pkg in $(pacman -Q | cut -f1); do
    pacman -Sp $pkg   # replace with correct flag.
done

Of course, this may grab some custom-built stuff too, but pacman'll just error out for that one (print to stderr, so no biggie) if it can't find it in the repos.

Last edited by Cerebral (2007-07-27 17:43:04)

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