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fatjake

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Registered: 2010-04-26

Posts: 45

[SOLVED] Usage of pacman --ignore

I have been unsuccessfully trying to prevent a package from being upgraded when I type pacman -Syu. I read the man and it appears that I need to use --ignore but I cant seem to get the syntax right.

[root@archvile pkg]# pacman -U --ignore wine-1.3.4-1-x86_64
error: no targets specified (use -h for help)
[root@archvile pkg]# pacman --ignore wine 1.3.4-1
error: no operation specified (use -h for help)
[root@archvile pkg]# pacman --ignore 'wine 1.3.4-1'
error: no operation specified (use -h for help)
[root@archvile pkg]# pacman -ignore 'wine 1.3.4-1'
error: problem setting rootdir 'e' (could not find or read directory)
[root@archvile pkg]# pacman -i 'wine 1.3.4-1'
error: no operation specified (use -h for help)
[root@archvile pkg]# pacman -i wine 1.3.4-1
error: no operation specified (use -h for help)
[root@archvile pkg]# pacman -ignore wine-1.3.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz 
error: problem setting rootdir 'e' (could not find or read directory)
[root@archvile pkg]# pacman -D --ignore wine-1.3.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz 
error: no targets specified (use -h for help)

Although I am a noob with Arch I've been getting along fine for the most part, I am probably missing something really obvious here.

Last edited by fatjake (2010-10-21 22:24:45)

skunktrader

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2010-02-14

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Re: [SOLVED] Usage of pacman --ignore

What happens if you include the -Syu flags in the same command line with the --ignore ?

pacman -Syu --ignore wine

jasonwryan

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Re: [SOLVED] Usage of pacman --ignore

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dow … n_packages

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fatjake

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Registered: 2010-04-26

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Re: [SOLVED] Usage of pacman --ignore

What happens if you include the -Syu flags in the same command line with the --ignore ?

pacman -Syu --ignore wine

Aha! That was it.

Thanks to Jason also, I will use that method if I decide I want to keep it longer term.