about pacman-static unavailable

olo · 2010-03-18 23:00:45

I have already got a Linux system. I wanna install Archlinux for a dual/backup Linux system. I tried bootable disk, but found the the mountpoint will eraser/recreate data.
so I decided install through my current linux. I followed this wiki : http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ins … ting_Linux , but i stuck at pacman-static-*.pkg.tar.gz, seems there is no this package on the server.

Could someone please tell where can get this package?

thanks a lot in adv.

Cheers

Allan · 2010-03-18 23:04:10

There is no official pacman-static and so you are limited to third party repos. I think the archlinuxfr one was the only repo providing this and if it has stopped...

Xyne · 2010-03-18 23:04:59

Why isn't there an official pacman-static package?

n0dix · 2010-03-18 23:06:16

In the AUR repo: link

wonder · 2010-03-18 23:09:12

Mar 17 17:04:41 <tuxce> I saw you talk about pacman-static, I forgot to delete from repo, cause I don't use it anymore, I prefer to use a little chroot archive with just the last pacman and the libs it depends on
Mar 17 17:05:18 <wonder> ok, maybe you want to modify the wiki too
Mar 17 17:06:50 <tuxce> which one ? (I didn't know of a wiki page talking about pacman-static)
Mar 17 17:07:18 <wonder> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ins … ting_Linux
Mar 17 17:09:06 <tuxce> ok, I will do that

he was the maintainer of pacman-static from archlinuxfr repo. it became obsolete and useless after we merged to .xz since it can't handle them.

Allan · 2010-03-18 23:10:27

It should be able to handle them.... xz-utils was built with a static library months ago to allow that.

wonder · 2010-03-18 23:11:32

Allan wrote:

It should be able to handle them.... xz-utils was built with a static library months ago to allow that.

yes, but the current build couldn't handle and i believe he didn't wanted to maintain it anymore and drop it, instead of providing the support.

Allan · 2010-03-18 23:13:09

Xyne wrote:

Why isn't there an official pacman-static package?

It was never that static and it really was not that useful... e.g. "pacman -Rd glibc" and try using pacman-static to recover. (I actually tried that.) So it was decided it could be maintained in a separate package if the community wanted it.

olo · 2010-03-18 23:32:40

thanks a lot guys, for all your prompt replies. if without pacman-static then how could get Archlinux installed easily through another?
cheers

Hamsterkill · 2010-03-22 14:37:35

I'm also interested in this, though in my case, I want to do it from a liveCD. The official Arch install media is too outdated to work on my machine. (And trying to use it actually breaks my NIC (Atheros AR8131) until I do a system recovery with the manufacturer CDs for some reason)

Last edited by Hamsterkill (2010-03-22 14:39:29)

Lucky · 2010-03-31 00:05:58

Hi,
i had this problem, too. I need a way to install arch from an rescue system (debian 5.0). So i wrote a little script to bring pacman on it.

http://lky.cc/getpac.sh

#!/bin/bash
#README {{{
# author......: Lucky <archlinux.org@lucky.take0ver.net>
# filename....: getpac.sh
# description.: get/install pacman on your system
# version.....: 1.0.4
#}}}

#CONFIG {{{
arch="$(uname -m)" #i686 or x86_64
mirror="ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux"
#}}}

#CHECK {{{
if [ "$(id -u)" -ne "0" ]; then
  echo "This script should be run as root."
  exit 1 
fi

if [ "${arch}" = "x86_64" ]; then
  echo "${arch} detected"
elif [ "${arch}" = "i686" ]; then
  echo "${arch} detected"
else
  echo "${arch} not supported"
  echo "set arch manualy on config part"
  exit 1
fi
#}}}

#DIRS_AND_INDEX {{{
scriptdir="$(pwd)"
tempdir="$(mktemp -d -t getpac-XXXXXXXX)"
cd "${tempdir}"
link="${mirror}/core/os/${arch}"
wget -q "${link}/"
#}}}

#PACKAGE_LIST {{{
#pacman-3.3.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
pacman_pkg="$(grep pacman-[0-9].[0-9] index.html | perl -ne 'print "$1\n" if />(.*?tar.gz)/;' | tail -1)"
#pacman-mirrorlist-20100131-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
pacmanmirror_pkg="$(grep pacman-mirror index.html | perl -ne 'print "$1\n" if />(.*?tar.gz)/;' | tail -1)"
#acl-2.2.48-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
acl_pkg="$(grep acl-[0-9].[0-9] index.html | perl -ne 'print "$1\n" if />(.*?tar.gz)/;' | tail -1)"
#attr-2.4.44-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
attr_pkg="$(grep attr-[0-9].[0-9] index.html | perl -ne 'print "$1\n" if />(.*?tar.gz)/;' | tail -1)"
#libarchive-2.7.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
libarchive_pkg="$(grep libarchive-[0-9].[0-9] index.html | perl -ne 'print "$1\n" if />(.*?tar.gz)/;' | tail -1)"
#libfetch-2.26-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
libfetch_pkg="$(grep libfetch-[0-9].[0-9] index.html | perl -ne 'print "$1\n" if />(.*?tar.gz)/;' | tail -1)"
#expat-2.0.1-5-i686.pkg.tar.gz
expat_pkg="$(grep expat-[0-9].[0-9] index.html | perl -ne 'print "$1\n" if />(.*?tar.gz)/;' | tail -1)"
#openssl-1.0.0-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz
openssl_pkg="$(grep openssl-[0-9].[0-9] index.html | perl -ne 'print "$1\n" if />(.*?tar.gz)/;' | tail -1)"
#xz-4.999.9beta-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
xz_pkg="$(grep xz-[0-9].[0-9] index.html | perl -ne 'print "$1\n" if />(.*?tar.gz)/;' | tail -1)"
#}}}

#GET_PACKAGES {{{
pkgs="${pacman_pkg} ${pacmanmirror_pkg} ${acl_pkg} ${attr_pkg} ${libarchive_pkg} ${libfetch_pkg} ${expat_pkg} ${openssl_pkg} ${xz_pkg}"
for pkg in ${pkgs}; do
  echo "${pkg}"
  wget -q "${link}/${pkg}"
done
#}}}

#EXTRACT_PACKAGES {{{
for pkg in *.tar.gz; do
  tar xvzf "${pkg}" -C /;
done
#}}}

#ADD_MIRROR {{{
(tmpfile="$(mktemp)" && { echo "Server = ${mirror}/"'$repo'"/os/${arch}" | cat - "/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist" > ${tmpfile} && mv ${tmpfile} "/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist"; } )
#}}}

#SYNC_PACMAN {{{
echo "" && \
pacman -Sy && \
echo "" && \
echo "\o/ pacman is ready now \o/"
cd "${scriptdir}"
#}}}

1.0.1 fix the missing openssl lib
1.0.2 fix renamed xz pkg
1.0.3 automatic detected $arch / change coding style
1.0.4 fix the missing expat lib / change coding style (dash compatible) / temp dir now mktemp based / on error no "\o/ pacman is ready now \o/" message

have fun and thanx for using this script

Last edited by Lucky (2010-07-26 05:35:23)

tavianator · 2010-03-31 00:19:15

Does elf statifier (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7732) work on pacman?

graysky · 2010-05-15 15:32:40

@Lucky - tried your script and got this running on Ubuntu 9.10 host system needing to install arch i686:

pacman: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.1.0.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

\o/ pacman is ready now \o/

I found that you'll need to the openssl package to your script! I linked this thread on the wiki so please edit your post with the script to include it.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ins … ting_Linux

Last edited by graysky (2010-05-15 15:46:49)

Lucky · 2010-05-16 17:32:14

@graysky
thanks for using and testing, getpac fixed.

tutroc77 · 2010-06-30 12:09:33

@Lucky

I tried but it was not working in Linux Mint x86_64:

tu@Pro4515s ~/archlinux $ sh getpac.download
getpac.download: 17: [[: not found
getpac.download: 27: [[: not found
getpac.download: 27: [[: not found
x86_64 not supported
set arch manualy on config part

Pro4515s archlinux # sh getpac.sh 
getpac.sh: 17: [[: not found
getpac.sh: 27: [[: not found
getpac.sh: 27: [[: not found
x86_64 not supported
set arch manualy on config part

thanks a lot in adv.

Last edited by tutroc77 (2010-06-30 12:10:59)

Lucky · 2010-06-30 12:28:43

Hi,

the output of "uname -m" is "x86_64" right? I don't know why isn't working. Maybe you don't use bash? (sh is not linked to bash)

run script: "./getpac.sh" or "bash getpac.sh"

If the $arch detection is not working set it manualy to:
arch="x86_64"

//Edit
Mint = Ubuntu based distro, Ubuntu use dash als /bin/sh replacement so sh getpach.sh will not work, because its an bash script.
./getpac.sh or bash getpac.sh works fine for me on Ubuntu 10.04 x86_64.

please give feedback

Last edited by Lucky (2010-06-30 12:48:04)

immolo · 2010-08-10 18:37:04

This also works for ArchPPC with some minor tweaks for thanks for this

zip1100 · 2010-08-25 17:24:21

Hi!

In Fedora 13 I encountered the following errormessage:
pacman: error while loading shared libraries: libbz2.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

To resolve it I linked libbz2.so.1.0 to /lib/libbz2.so.1

So long,
zip1100

ScannerDarkly · 2010-08-31 04:38:18

Thought it was best to post in here considering I've found the link following the guide from here

@Lucky
Thank you very much for the script - pacman is working beautifully, and I've chrooted and built a initcpio image.

Host: Ubuntu x86_64

The drive is IDE/PATA with USB attachment. Current partitions (viewed from within my Ubuntu install) are as follows:

[Primary]
/dev/sdb1 /
[Extended/Logical]
/dev/sdb5 /swap
/dev/sdb6 /home

I ran
# grub-install /dev/sdb1 (do not have separate /boot, so onto /)

Here is my menu.lst. Here is my /etc/mkinitcpio.conf of which I have added PATA and USB to my "HOOKS="

All I am getting now is a blinking _ when trying to boot the drive. I don't if Grub is the problem or something else.

sand_man · 2010-08-31 07:05:46

A shot in the dark here but doesn't the kernel and initrd parameters still require the /boot/ path even if there is not a separate boot partition?

http://oss.sgi.com/LDP/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO/grubconf.html

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
    #
    # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
    # NOTICE:  You do not have a /boot partition.  This means that
    #          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
    #          root (hd0,8)
    #          kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda9
    #          initrd /boot/initrd-version.img

Ztjuh · 2011-05-30 12:55:13

I'm having a problem with getpac.sh.

./getpac.sh: /tmp/archlinux/usr/bin/pacman: /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2: bad ELF interpreter: No such file or directory

How can I fix this problem?

x86_64 detected
pacman-3.5.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
pacman-mirrorlist-20110324-1-any.pkg.tar.gz
libarchive-2.8.4-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
libfetch-2.33-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
openssl-1.0.0.d-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
xz-5.0.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
.PKGINFO
usr/
usr/include/
usr/bin/
usr/lib/
usr/share/
usr/share/man/
usr/share/licenses/
usr/share/licenses/libarchive/
usr/share/licenses/libarchive/COPYING
usr/share/man/man5/
usr/share/man/man3/
usr/share/man/man1/
usr/share/man/man1/bsdtar.1.gz
usr/share/man/man1/bsdcpio.1.gz
...
...
...
...
...
usr/share/man/man1/xz.1.gz
usr/share/man/man1/xzgrep.1.gz
usr/share/man/man1/lzmore.1.gz
usr/share/man/man1/lzgrep.1.gz
usr/share/man/man1/unlzma.1.gz
usr/share/man/man1/lzless.1.gz
usr/share/man/man1/xzless.1.gz
usr/share/man/man1/lzcmp.1.gz
usr/share/man/man1/lzcat.1.gz
usr/share/man/man1/xzcmp.1.gz
usr/share/man/man1/xzdec.1.gz
usr/share/man/man1/xzdiff.1.gz
usr/share/man/man1/lzdiff.1.gz
usr/share/man/man1/xzfgrep.1.gz
usr/share/man/man1/lzmadec.1.gz
usr/share/man/man1/lzmainfo.1.gz
usr/share/man/man1/unxz.1.gz
usr/share/man/man1/lzegrep.1.gz
usr/share/man/man1/lzfgrep.1.gz
usr/share/man/man1/xzegrep.1.gz
usr/share/man/man1/xzcat.1.gz

./getpac.sh: /tmp/archlinux/usr/bin/pacman: /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2: bad ELF interpreter: No such file or directory

jasonwryan · 2011-05-31 02:49:10

Ztjuh: please don't necrobump https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … Bumping.27

Open a new thread about your issue.

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