Alex Sleat » pkgs https://alexsleat.co.uk /home/alex Tue, 19 Jun 2012 10:37:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Installing packages from CD in Arch Linux https://alexsleat.co.uk/2011/03/10/installing-packages-from-cd-in-arch-linux/ https://alexsleat.co.uk/2011/03/10/installing-packages-from-cd-in-arch-linux/#comments Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:02:58 +0000 Alex https://alexsleat.co.uk/?p=12317

Okay, so you have Arch Linux installed and let’s say you’re wifi isn’t working and you need the package “iwlwifi-3945-ucode-15.32.2.9-2-any.pkg.tar.gz” to fix this but you don’t have a wired connect. What do you do? Blast in your Arch cd, mount it, mount the packages sqfs file and install using pacman.

Mount cdrom:

mkdir [...]]]>

Okay, so you have Arch Linux installed and let’s say you’re wifi isn’t working and you need the package “iwlwifi-3945-ucode-15.32.2.9-2-any.pkg.tar.gz” to fix this but you don’t have a wired connect. What do you do? Blast in your Arch cd, mount it, mount the packages sqfs file and install using pacman.

Mount cdrom:

mkdir /mnt/cdrom/
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom/

Mount *-pkgs.sqfs:

mkdir /mnt/pkgs/
mount -o loop core-pkgs.sqfs /mnt/pkgs/
cd /mnt/pkgs/

Install pkg.tar.gz:

pacman -U package-name.pkg.tar.gz
]]> https://alexsleat.co.uk/2011/03/10/installing-packages-from-cd-in-arch-linux/feed/ 6