Install multiple cman -U command (done)

lilsirecho · 2010-06-09 23:37:03

Desire to install from local cache directory a number of cached packages with a single ...pacman -U command.

A simple list of the packages in sequence only loads and installs the first listed item and rejects all others.

Last edited by lilsirecho (2010-06-10 19:30:38)

ngoonee · 2010-06-10 00:47:45

Try the absolute paths. I can't exactly recall whether I've done it before, but I think I have.

lilsirecho · 2010-06-10 03:00:14

My hope is that with a single ....pacman -U (cachedir)/package 1 package 2 package 3 ....etc......with each package including its full ID will permit the install of 120 or so packages fromthe cachedir.

I fully expect that if I repeat the ....pacman -U (cachedir) 120 times it will install all but this is too much typing for this ole man!!!

Allan · 2010-06-10 03:06:32

> pacman -U /home/arch/pkgcache/i686/leafpad-0.8.17-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz /home/arch/pkgcache/i686/apricots-0.2.6-3-i686.pkg.tar.gz 
loading package data...
checking dependencies...
(2/2) checking for file conflicts                   [#####################] 100%
(1/2) installing leafpad                            [#####################] 100%
(2/2) installing apricots                           [#####################] 100%

So what is wrong here? Everything seems to work.

ngoonee · 2010-06-10 03:18:34

Why not just cd (cachedir) and then pacman -U all the packages?

kazuo · 2010-06-10 03:35:33

lilsirecho wrote:

My hope is that with a single ....pacman -U (cachedir)/package 1 package 2 package 3 ....etc......with each package including its full ID will permit the install of 120 or so packages fromthe cachedir.

I fully expect that if I repeat the ....pacman -U (cachedir) 120 times it will install all but this is too much typing for this ole man!!!

pacman -U works as Allan said, so you dont need...

But real real man dont repeat things they program/script it, so if pacman -U dont worked you dont repeat it 120 times, but let the computer do it for you

for file in $cachedir/*; do pacman -U $file;done

Last edited by kazuo (2010-06-10 03:36:57)

lilsirecho · 2010-06-10 17:10:07

Appreciate the responses and am hopeful one of the methods reduces my install time by 35 seconds.

lilsirecho · 2010-06-10 19:27:56

No way to reduce the install time since each package has to be loaded, untarred and then all are installed.

Best to install only packages needed singly or in smaller groups.

Xyne · 2010-06-10 21:38:06

kazuo wrote:

But real real man dont repeat things they program/script it, so if pacman -U dont worked you dont repeat it 120 times, but let the computer do it for you
for file in $cachedir/*; do pacman -U $file;done

Real real real men repeat even less:

function separately() {
  CMD=$1
  shift 1
  for ARG in "$@"
  do
    $CMD $ARG
  done
}

separately 'pacman -U' $cachedir/*

ataraxia · 2010-06-10 23:00:25

Real real real real real men don't re-invent the wheel, either:

echo $cachedir/* |  xargs -n 1 pacman -U

:P

Last edited by ataraxia (2010-06-10 23:00:39)

lilsirecho · 2010-06-11 18:48:38

Ataraxia;

Nice sequential method which shows the individual package handling by pacman with n=1.

It takes 1 min 45 secs to install 142 files (229MB tar.xz) into live ram.

I think it installs all packages which have no dependency problems but does not install those with problems.

In my Live cp2ram system it increases the ram use to almost 3.2GB since the installed size is uncompressed packages.

Plan on a new-fangled mobo with 6 or 8 GB of ram!!! Want a 1600mhz cpu system with 1600 mhz ram.

I guess I want it because its there!!!!

Thanks for your reply among the others as well.

Arch Linux

#1 2010-06-09 23:37:03

Install multiple cman -U command (done)

#2 2010-06-10 00:47:45

Re: Install multiple cman -U command (done)

#3 2010-06-10 03:00:14

Re: Install multiple cman -U command (done)

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