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HI, so I've installed arch on my computer and a friend of mine saw how fast my system is now using arch and he wants me to install it on his system so i wanted to know if there is a way to actually "copy" my packages to his computer so he wouldn't have to download them, and i say this 'cause he uses pretty much the same programs i use.
please if somebody can help me, I'd really appreciate it.
Last edited by infernalarch (2009-11-22 00:03:51)
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Why dont you give him the pkglist and just download it.
Else look into /var/cache/pacman/ there should be your packages then just pacman -U the package
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Some do it like this:
First, backup the current list of packages (which are available in a repository):
pacman -Qqe | grep -v "$(pacman -Qmq)" > pkglist
Copy the pkglist file to the new installation, and navigate to the directory containing it.
pacman -S $(cat pkglist)
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Like jelly said, you want to look copy what's in /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ over onto the new system. Once those are in the cache you can just install like normal with pacman -S, since it will look there first.
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Like jelly said, you want to look copy what's in /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ over onto the new system. Once those are in the cache you can just install like normal with pacman -S, since it will look there first.
Thank you, now i know what to do.
ARCHLINUX ROCKS!!!!
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