Local Pacman...

vdias · 2009-01-23 18:20:26

Since i cannot use my vodafone usb modem on my new arch install... i asked a friend to download all pacman packages from a arch mirror...

How can i use them on my machine... i copied all files to "/var/cache/pacman/pkg" but it seems not to work...

How can i update pacman database to use this local files???

ghostHack · 2009-01-23 18:34:47

What you need to do is create a local repo, eg;

mkdir /home/vdias/local_repo
cp /var/cache/pacman/pkg/*.pkg.tar.gz /home/vdas/local_repo
cd /home/vdias/local_repo
repo-add /home/vdias/local_repo.db.tar.gz *.pkg.tar.gz

then add

[local_repo]
file:///home/vdias/local_repo

to /etc/pacman.conf above the entry for [core] and then run pacman -Syy to refresh the pacman database. If you don't have a net connection you may want to comment out the entries for [core], [extra] and [community] for now. Just remember to run a 'pacman -Sy' if you add them back in later.

After this you should be able to install any of the packages your friend downloaded using normal 'pacman -S some_package' commands

(Wiki page)

vdias · 2009-01-23 19:06:47

It worked... Thankz a lot!

ghostHack · 2009-01-23 19:25:18

One thing I forgot to add, if you get your network up and running you probably want to remove the entry for the local repo in /etc/pacman.conf and run pacman -Syy

vdias · 2009-01-25 21:51:59

It created the local_repo without problems... and installed some pkg without problem... but now i wanted to install gnome and it gives me dependency errors...

Seems that pacman cannot find the dependency pkg... but they are there for sure...

Any other solution?

tomk · 2009-01-25 22:06:38

vdias wrote:

Since i cannot use my vodafone usb modem on my new arch install

Have you tried to fix that? AFAIK others are using Arch with similar devices.

vdias · 2009-01-26 13:42:47

tomk wrote:

vdias wrote:
Since i cannot use my vodafone usb modem on my new arch install
Have you tried to fix that? AFAIK others are using Arch with similar devices.

Yeap... I tried everything... and no solution... wvdial cannot find carrier...

GGGRRRR!!!

pyther · 2009-01-26 14:03:06

Time to by a real modem... snickers

Anyways, you can use pacman -U /path/to/some/really/super/cool/program.pkg.tar.gz to install specific packages.

vdias · 2009-01-26 14:09:26

Pyther i started to do that... but is a pain in the ass... find the real name of all packages... and after install... boring... but doing it...

Anyone can recommend a cheap router that works with the fuc#$&$ usb vodafone modem?

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Local Pacman...

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