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verndog

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Registered: 2007-09-21

Posts: 55

How to install user 'hwd' from CD (SOLVED)

Forgive me, but I've searched on how to install a user program. Namely I want to install 'hwh'
I have remade the Don't Panic CD with 'hwd-4.8.2.bin.tar.gz' inside the arch/pkg directory
on the cd. pacman see's it, but won't install it.

I know using the internet is the easiest way, but the pc I'm trying to install it on doesn't have
internet access. I noticed it is missing the .pkginfo and .filelist files that the other orignal one
have. I guess my question is how do I install "user" packages without using the internet.

I'm trying to get Arch installed using the below guide, and shows using hwd :
file://localhost/C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Administrator/Desktop/Arch%20Voodoo%20Install.mht

Should I have put the hwd file on my /home somewhere, or will this work. I don't know enough about
Arch and/or pacman to direct its path. I have manage to alter pacman.conf inside /etc to point to the
cdrom to get the other stuff off of it. I now have a working video but I would like to see how or
what 'hwd' does.

Thanks for any help, and please excuse my ignorance.

Last edited by verndog (2007-09-25 21:35:09)

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: How to install user 'hwd' from CD (SOLVED)

hwd-4.8.2.bin.tar.gz is not an Arch package - that's why pacman doesn't like it.

Get hwd-4.8.2-1-<arch>.pkg.tar.gz from any Arch mirror (<arch> is i686 or x86_64, as required).

Question answered, so now the advice: you don't need hwd. Arch's default hardware detection is better.

verndog

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Registered: 2007-09-21

Posts: 55

Re: How to install user 'hwd' from CD (SOLVED)

hwd-4.8.2.bin.tar.gz is not an Arch package - that's why pacman doesn't like it.

Get hwd-4.8.2-1-<arch>.pkg.tar.gz from any Arch mirror (<arch> is i686 or x86_64, as required).

Question answered, so now the advice: you don't need hwd. Arch's default hardware detection is better.

Thanks, I found it here:
ftp://mirrors.unixheads.org/archlinux/extra/os/i686/

Confusing for new user. Because I found the other one here:
http://www.archlinux.org/packages/3946/
Even though at the top of the header it states hwd 4.8.2-1
but in the sources it had hwd 4.8.2 ONLY.

In future I'll follow the ftp mirror.

Edit: Oh, I see. I think your advice is referring to this package:
hwdetect-0.8-8.pkg.tar.gz

If so, I thought 'hwd' added something this one didn't. Accoring to the guide I had listed.

Thanks for your help.

Last edited by verndog (2007-09-24 23:06:41)

kishd

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Registered: 2006-06-14

Posts: 401

Re: How to install user 'hwd' from CD (SOLVED)

hwd is a different utility to hwdetect. You could use hwd -xa to generate and install X.

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tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: How to install user 'hwd' from CD (SOLVED)

Confusing for new user. Because I found the other one here:
http://www.archlinux.org/packages/3946/
Even though at the top of the header it states hwd 4.8.2-1
but in the sources it had hwd 4.8.2 ONLY.

Just to follow that up - it is clearly marked "Sources:" on that page, which means "the source code that is compiled to create this Arch package". If you want, you can submit a feature request with your preferred wording, but IMO it's quite clear.