2007/5/11, Wayne Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > Behalf Of Roman Kyrylych > > Sent: 11 May 2007 01:44 > > To: General Discusson about Arch Linux > > Subject: Re: [arch] Using pacman to intall downloaded packages > > > > 2007/5/11, Wayne Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > I have been using gentoo for the last +- 5 years anyway after a hdd > > > dying on me yesterday I decided to try arch last night. > > > > > > I downloaded and installed the ISO and was impressed with the speed, > > > simplicity and my general first impression was good. > > > > > > I had also downloaded some extra packages including openbox, qemu, blah > > > blah blah. > > > I installed the additional packages using the command > > > > > > # pacman -A <package name> > > > > Note that pacman -A / -U do not install dependencies. They are not for > > common use. > > Why didn't you download and install them with pacman -Sy <foobar> ? > > Also, you can use pacman -Sw <foobar> to download it to package cache > > and install later any time with pacman -S <foobar> > > > I have just moved into a new place and I am waiting for my broadband to be > installed. I had to download at work. > That's the main reason I opted for a binary distribution.
Understand. Even in that case it is possible to download packages and their depends and make them installed with -S: they shoould just be placed in /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ > I doubt it's a dependency issue though as figlet has no dependencies other > than glibc Sure. It may be a broken build. I do remember some report about figlet but it is not in bugtracker (at least flyspray is cannot find it), probably forums or ML. :-/ > Thanks for the heads up though np :) -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич) _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
