Pacman: install package from local disk withou database refresh

Basically what it says in the title.
I've just installed Arch on a notebook that doesn't have a working ethernet jack. To get wifi working I need wpa-supplicant, so I downloaded the package using another machine. When I try to install it with pacman -U wpa-supplicant.pkg.tar.xz, pacman complains it doesn't have a database (which is probably right since I f*cked up /var), and without a network connection I can't do a pacman -Syu.
Can I force pacman to do the install, or do I have to install wpa-supplicant manually?

There is not point in rebuilding the wpa_supplicant. If you are going to manually install it and you have the built package, just manually install the prebuild binary you already have.
I am not sure if manually installing is the best approach, but if it is just unpack the package, then copy the files to the appropriate place in the root directory.
When you get up and running, you will need to delete these and install wpa_supplicant via pacman - or you you could use --force for this one single package: pacman --force -S wpa_supplicant in order to overwrite the existing conflicting files.
I suspect there is a better means to regenerate a simple starter database. You can download the sync databases from your mirror manually.
Last edited by Trilby (2014-10-14 14:31:10)

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How do I update/install packages from a CD?

Hello,
I am new to Arch Linux. Kindly excuse me if this task is very trivial. I have installed the base system and updated it using pacman -Syu. I also installed all the other software packages using pacman -S <packagename>. Now I want to burn a CD containing all these updates and packages so that I can make a similar installation later on other systems which are not connected to the internet. I am not able to figure out how this can be done.
I need to upgrade the system and install all the packages I have on the CD by giving minimum number of commands at the command line. This helps me install Arch Linux on a large number of machines in a very short time.
Thanks for your help.

If you're talking about batch installing packages, the method you suggested
will work for every package in the current directory.

Pacman: install package from local disk withou database refresh

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