[SOLVED] "Clone" packages on comp #1 to comp #2?

I have a dilemma that's kinda hard to search for on the archlinux forums.
I have an old archlinux install on computer #1, and now I have a new clean install on computer #2, is there any way for me to install all the packages computer #1 has on computer #2 with relative ease? Doing it manually would take forever.
Last edited by Blasting (2010-12-01 04:23:03)

# comp 1
pacman -Qqe > installed.txt
# comp 2
pacman -S $(cat installed.txt)
Not the -Qe lists only "explicitly installed" packages. That way, dependencies stay installed as dependencies.
Copy all the files from /var/cache/pacman/pkg from comp 1 to comp 2 to prevent having to download them again.

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[SOLVED] unattended package signing?

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[SOLVED] install package from aur via yaourt

Hi,
i installed yaourt and tried to install from the aur.
it keeps asking me to continue bulding and then restart building. it just wont install any packages.
for none-aur packages it works fine btw.
any help?
alex
Last edited by alext (2011-10-11 23:13:53)

me too and it didnt.
[xxx@xxx pcmanfm-mod]$ yaourt ntfs-config
1 aur/ntfs-config 1.0.1-7 (200)
Enable/disable NTFS write support with a simple click
==> Enter n° of packages to be installed (ex: 1 2 3 or 1-3)
==> -------------------------------------------------------
==> 1
==> Downloading ntfs-config PKGBUILD from AUR...
x PKGBUILD
x python-2.7.patch
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Compiles installs OK using yaourt, however does not work on my up-to-date system with the issue discussed here: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1497399.html
Comment by: jlcordeiro on Mon, 27 Jun 2011 08:56:12 +0000
Can you check if:
sudo mkdir /etc/hal/fdi
sudo touch /etc/hal/fdi/policy
solves the problem?
Comment by: mr430 on Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:56:44 +0000
jlcordeiro, same problem and making /etc/hal/fdi directory solve it, thanks
Comment by: jlcordeiro on Sat, 08 Oct 2011 08:17:08 +0000
Updated with the solution to the mentioned problem.
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Please, add perl-xml-parser as makedep :)
Comment by: jlcordeiro on Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:36:05 +0000
Done. Thank you :)
First Submitted: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 21:10:44 +0000
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==> ------------------------------------
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- pygtk (already installed)
- udev (already installed)
- ntfs-3g (already installed)
- perl-xml-parser (already installed)
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- file (package found)
- /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, (building from AUR)
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- 82: (building from AUR)
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- 'testing' (building from AUR)
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- config (building from AUR)
- file (package found)
- /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, (building from AUR)
- line (building from AUR)
- 82: (building from AUR)
- directive (building from AUR)
- 'Germany' (building from AUR)
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- section (building from AUR)
- 'core' (building from AUR)
- not (building from AUR)
- recognized. (building from AUR)
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- 'community' (building from AUR)
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- recognized. (building from AUR)
- warning: (building from AUR)
- config (building from AUR)
- file (package found)
- /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, (building from AUR)
- line (building from AUR)
- 82: (building from AUR)
- directive (building from AUR)
- 'Germany' (building from AUR)
- in (building from AUR)
- section (building from AUR)
- 'multilib' (building from AUR)
- not (building from AUR)
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==> -------------------------------------
==>
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Password:
warning: config file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, line 82: directive 'Germany' in section 'testing' not recognized.
warning: config file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, line 82: directive 'Germany' in section 'core' not recognized.
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==> ------------------------------------
==>
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==> ------------------------------------
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- directive (building from AUR)
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- recognized. (building from AUR)
- warning: (building from AUR)
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==> -------------------------------------
==>
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warning: config file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, line 82: directive 'Germany' in section 'multilib' not recognized.
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==> ------------------------------------
==>
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Last edited by alext (2011-10-11 22:16:58)

[Solved] Install package python-evdev from AUR

I belive this is the correct section to post this but I have a problem installing the package python-evdev where I get the error ( Unsupported package: Potentially dangerous ! )
after trying to install with yaourt and pip install python-evdev results in bash: pip: command not found even after checking that extra/python-setuptools 1:5.2-1 is installed
and extra/python2-setuptools 1:5.2-1 is installed.
I realize there are other modules for hooking x server events but this one I have already written 200 lines of code for and is key to my application working. I was able to install
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Last edited by meschael (2014-06-25 00:34:58)

I asumed pip came with setup tools, so following ids1024's lead I did a pacman -S python-pip which solved the command not found issue. I downloaded and untar'ed the package from AUR and issued a makepkg -s from within the extracted folder. There seems to be an issue with the licence which I can now see has to do with the person who make the package
I did not realize the dynamics of how AUR works because I am new to arch, so I appologize if I bothered anyone.
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[SOLVED]about package unneed

how can i to smart clean unneed package..
because `pacman --remove --unneeded` to clean all package with i need..
i'm archlinux new user, help me pls tell me any package can doit like:
/var/lib/portage/world by `emerge --depclean` @ Gentoo Linux
/usr/local/etc/pkg_cutleaves by `pkg_cutleaves` @ FreeBSD
to clean unneed package without my package.
Last edited by arli (2011-11-02 12:11:07)

tigrmesh wrote:Please tell us the solution so others can find help. Also, please mark this thread as [solved] (edit your first post).
sorry about that..
this topic start by my friend(at that time, we share same http-proxy with cookies).
but i remember he's solution, an script create by me.
$ cat pkg_cutleaves.sh
#!/bin/sh
# req: pacman, grep, awk, cut
# by ArLi Weng, [email protected], last update: 20100512
# conf file path here, for example: /etc/pkg_cutleaves.conf
_conf="/mnt/public/gPRG/sh/linux/arch/pkg_cutleaves.conf"
_conf_grps=`grep "@" $_conf | cut -d@ -f2`
_conf_pkgs=`grep -E "^[a-z]" $_conf`
list() {
_pkgs_qt=`pacman -Qtq`
for _pkg_qt in $_pkgs_qt
do
_group=`pacman -Qi $_pkg_qt | grep "Groups" | awk '{print $3}'`
filter_grps "$_group" "$_pkg_qt"
done
filter_grps() {
for _grp in $_conf_grps
do
if [ "$_grp" = "$1" ]
then
return 0
fi
done
filter_pkgs "$2"
filter_pkgs() {
for _pkg in $_conf_pkgs
do
if [ "$_pkg" = "$1" ]
then
return 0
fi
done
hit_pkg "$1"
hit_pkg() {
# pacman -Rsn "$1"
echo "$1"
list
here is my "pkg_cutleaves.conf"
$ cat /mnt/public/gPRG/sh/linux/arch/pkg_cutleaves.conf
# groups
@base
@xfce4
# system
abs
cifs-utils
gnu-netcat
iftop
ntp
openssh
qemu
tcpdump
w3m
# dev
autoconf
automake
fakeroot
gdb
make
patch
pkg-config
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nvidia
ttf-dejavu
xf86-input-synaptics
xorg-xprop
xorg-xrdb
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alsa-utils
gvfs
thunar-archive-plugin
xarchiver
xfce4-notes-plugin
xfce4-notifyd
xfce4-power-manager
ristretto
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p7zip
unrar
unzip
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icedtea-web
jamvm
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amule
axel
blueman
bogofilter
celestia
deluge
desmume
dosbox
epdfview
fcitx-stable
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flashplugin
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gimp
libreoffice-calc
libreoffice-draw
libreoffice-impress
libreoffice-writer
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stardict
sylpheed
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wine
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Last edited by arli (2011-11-02 12:39:53)

[SOLVED] filesystem package: list by label in /etc/crypttab

Reading about Persistent Device Naming, using labels in /etc/fstab rather than UUIDs has some advantages. But /etc/crypttab seems to support only /dev/sdXY and UUID notation. Since flesystem is listed as an Arch Linux package, is there any chance of adding support for naming devices with labels in /etc/crypttab?
Last edited by Konkorde (2014-12-15 01:28:42)

falconindy wrote:You cannot identify an encrypted filesystem by LABEL, because the label itself is a property of the unencrypted filesystem. You're asking to solve a chicken/egg problem.
I apologize for misspeaking: I want to identify a partition containing an encrypted filesystem by label in /etc/crypttab. While /dev/disk/sdXY works, /dev/disk/by-label/foo did not work.
falconindy wrote:You can identify an encrypted filesystem by its PARTLABEL (or PARTUUID), assuming you've partitioned your disks with GPT. I added support, implicitly, for this to /etc/crypttab 2 years ago.
Thanks Dave: I am using GPT and although I'm new to PARTLABEL, I'll look into it. Looking at the code you linked, though, I think I probably just want to use the
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[SOLVED] 'wordgrinder' package build fails

I'm trying to build a package out of this program here: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=17015
I download the tarball, extract it into my builds directory, enter the wordgrinder directory and enter 'makepkg -s'. I've only done this sort of thing once or twice but it worked then. This time, however, it ends with a build error:
(... lots of patching lines...)
pm: bootstrapping...
modemuncher.h:4: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
pm: creating new intermediate file cache in '.pm-cache'
gcc "-Wall" "-Os" "-I/usr/include/ncursesw" "-I/usr/include/lua" "-D_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED" "-D_XOPEN_SOURCE" "-DVERSION=\"0.2\"" "-DFILEFORMAT=2" "-DPREFIX=\"/usr\"" "-DNDEBUG" -c -o ".pm-cache/1-utils.o" "src/c/utils.c"
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src/c/utils.c: In function 'writeu8_cb':
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src/c/utils.c: In function 'utils_init':
src/c/utils.c:168: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'funcs'
src/c/utils.c:168: error: 'funcs' undeclared (first use in this function)
src/c/utils.c:168: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
src/c/utils.c:168: error: for each function it appears in.)
src/c/utils.c:168: error: expected expression before ']' token
src/c/utils.c:177: warning: implicit declaration of function 'luaL_register'
rm -f ".pm-cache/1-utils.o"
pm: object 'cfile', defined at pmfile:71, failed to build with return code 256
==> ERROR: Build Failed.
Aborting...
Can anybody tell me what's going wrong?
Last edited by chochem (2008-08-19 09:40:39)

Garns wrote:
chochem wrote:BTW I was beta-testing the new version (0.3) while I was on Ubuntu and it looks quite impressive. Some neat new features, such as being able to navigate the document by headline-structure, easy moving text in between documents - introducing the Scrapbook - and possibly even... wait for it... undo (no promises, though). Sadly it says orphaned in AUR so Iguess it might be a while before it's available on Arch...
I adopted it . I'll update it to 0.3 as soon as there is a release. As orphaned packages in AUR are free for anyone to adopt, you could have done this as well.
Cool, thanks Yes, well but ... seeing as today is Day Two of my entire Arch experience, I figured I'd wait a bit before inflicting my workmanship on others. Funny thing is, I found out, I'm already contributing unwittingly: Searching AUR for MPD stuff, I found that somebody had posted a link to some old bash script hacks I've done

(Solved)Install packages from Usb/Flashdrive or Dvd-see last post

Hi,i just started using linux and have what's problay going to sound like a dumb question.can i download packages and put them on a Usb/Flashdrive or dvd and install them with pacman.I have a rocket stick usb modem and cant get it to connet to the net because im missing a package (wvdial).Any help with this will be appreciated.Thx
BTW i burned this package to a dvd (wvdial) and went to my dvddrive and it wasent there:)
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=83206
Last edited by unilx (2009-10-26 15:51:30)

you can surely put those packages onto a removable media & to install those packs with pacman you need to copy those to /var/cache/pacman/pkg directory.
then just do
pacman -S package
BTW i burned this package to a dvd (wvdial) and went to my dvddrive and it wasent there:)
can't understand this. might be u r saying that u burned wvdial to a dvd & it wasn't there, so there are chances that that dvd is corrupt or burning didn't happen properly
Last edited by vik_k (2009-10-23 05:42:52)

[SOLVED] Rosgarden package not working

Hi everybody,
it's my first post here, so I hope I get all things done.
I installed the new version of Rosegarden (10.02; i686 architecture) for the first time yesterday evening. I wanted to check out its features.
Rosegarden's package information:
http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra … osegarden/
I usually start programs via the Bash. But when starting Rosegarden this error occurs:
[user@asterix ~]$ rosegarden
rosegarden: symbol lookup error: rosegarden: undefined symbol: _ZN9QListData7detach3Ev
It seems that there's something (a package?!?) missing.
I installed Rosegarden with Pacman:
[2010-02-15 19:37] synchronizing package lists
[2010-02-15 19:41] installed liblrdf (0.4.0-6)
[2010-02-15 19:41] installed liblo (0.26-1)
[2010-02-15 19:41] installed dssi (1.0.0-3)
[2010-02-15 19:41] installed rosegarden (10.02-1)
According to Rosegarden's package information the following packages are required (the missing one were installed by Pacman itself; in brackets the installed version):
- fftw (3.2.2-1)
- qt (4.5.3-4)
- liblrdf (0.4.0-6)
- dssi (1.0.0-3)
- ladspa (1.13-2)
- liblo (0.26-1)
- lirc-utils (0.8.6-3)
- shared-mime-info (0.71-1)
I've searched for previous errors:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=82791
There's no relation to my problem.
It would be great if someone has a clue what to do. I hope all necessary information were mentioned.
Thanks.
Last edited by Schwefelsaeure (2010-02-17 23:20:30)

Hi,
sorry for my late reply, but I was busy the all day long.
Thank you 'drcouzelis' for the tip to build Rosegarden on my own (with ABS).
The building process took a while on my old AMD Athlon XP 1900+ but it works now.
Unfortunately I don't know what went wrong before. It's the first package (within Pacman) which does not work since I've been using Arch Linux (about three years now).
Arch Linux is a great distribution with a great and helpful community.
Thanks for support.

[Solved] Insync package error holding up system upgrade

I'm getting the following problem when trying pacman -Syu
error: insync: missing required signature
I think I installed insync from aur - so I'm not sure how it's trying to update during the pacman -Syu process (or do all aur packages do this?).
Also, where do I get the PGP sig from? I'll contact insync for support, but has anyone else had this problem?
TIA
Last edited by kabads (2013-09-21 10:10:55)

I've since installed the latest version of insync via aur and pacman -Syu now longer wants to upgrade it and then goes on to upgrade everything else.

[SOLVED] Clone Archlinux to USB flash drive

Hello,
I want to clone an existing Archlinux installation (x86-64) from a hard drive to a 32 GB USB flash drive. I want to be able to boot from the USB stick on my Win7 labtop.
I already took some measures to prepare my hard drive (with gparted). After moving all movies, pics etc to external stores and shrinking the home drive (sda4), it now looks like this:
- sda1 Boot (small)
- sda2 Swap (small)
- sda3 Root ( ca.8GB)
- sda4 Home (ca. 22GB)
I tried to take an image of the entire hard-disk (ca. 250GB) with clonezilla and restore it to the USB flash drive, but got an error message - original disk to big (250GB vs 32GB), besides only ca 30GB of the 250GB being assigned to partitions.
Now I'm looking for a way to bring only the necessary partitions from the harddisk to the USB stick, hoping to have exactly the same Archlinux configuration as a bootable installation on the USB stick afterwards (bootable on a Win7 labtop ... and maybe from my main Archlinux machine too). There is a wiki article about the topic, but its rather about installing a fresh system than cloning an existing system. The related questions on the forum (searching in 'installation' for 'clone usb') did not answer my question.
Maybe somebody did successfully what I'm planning to do and can give me some tips?
Last edited by 4on6 (2012-04-16 12:57:01)

4on6 wrote:Create two new partitions - with gparted p.ej.? And do I have to worry about the filesystems - must they be the same like for the original partitions on my hard-disk?
I prefer Gparted, it's easy as cake
The filesystems don't have to be the same as the original partitions. I prefer ext4 (universally supported) or jfs (uses very little CPU), but I recommend you ext4.
In fact, you can use a hard drive instead of a flash drive and this is how you clone a Linux installation manually!
4on6 wrote:So I mount both - source and destination partitions (/mnt/dest/ suggests it ...)?
Yes. I mount the source partition in /mnt/source and the destination partition in /mnt/dest, and then I issue
rsync -av /mnt/source/ /mnt/dest
and wait for it to finish. Then I unmount the partitions and mount the other ones and repeat the same thing.
4on6 wrote:I create that /boot folder on the flash drives root partition, right? Won't that cause problems later on with rsync, when I update the installation and there is an additional folder on the target partition?
Since the root directory you'll aready copy on the flash disk won't have the /boot directory, simple do a
mkdir /mnt/dest/boot
while your destination partition is still mounted. Unmount the source root partition, mount the boot one and then type:
rsync -av /mnt/source/ /mnt/dest/boot
and GRUB and the kernel will be copied to the /boot folder on the destinaton partition on the flash disk.
Make sure that in /mnt/dest/etc/fstab you comment out the line for mounting the /boot partition, if any.
4on6 wrote:I've seen those UUIDs as output of a linux command (mount? fdisk?), but I don't recall which one - how do I get these UUIDs?
Use Gparted, right click any partition and click Information. In the window that appears, in the middle you can double-click the UUID and press Ctrl-C to copy it. Then you can paste it in the text editor and use it for /etc/fstab or /boot/grub/menu.lst. That's why I love Gparted for such stuff.
4on6 wrote:Do I send this command from the live Arch-CD, and is it the only command necessary (I have not much experience with grub)?
Yes, since Arch uses GRUB 1 on the installation CD you can uste the command I gave you to reinstall GRUB on the flash disk with the settings you already entered for the /boot/grub/menu.lst file.
Make sure you boot the CD in 64 bit mode if the Arch you installed is 64 bit. Just to be safe.
4on6 wrote:I will ...
Be very careful, I didn't and lost ALL my files by mistake in typing. Triple-check the directory you are currently working in! ALWAYS make a backup!
4on6 wrote:Great that this is possible, hope I manage to get it done. Thanks again.
You're welcome. Please inform me if this little tutorial suited you so I can make a wiki entry for it, if the admins allow.

[solved] rebuild packages on kernel update

Hi. I jave an older computer (Dell Studio 173x) with a 'Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)' network card. So far I have only been able to make it work with the bwoadcom-wl package from the AUR (I might give the other, suggested, alternatives a go this week).
However, in the last 2-3 months it stopped working suddenly about 3 times (yesterday was the last one). I _think_ it has to do with kernel updates, as that's what I did yesterday - I updated the kernel (plus a few other packages, but rather innocent, I guess, I update daily, and they were things like git), rebooted and wireless was not working (the card was not even listen in 'ip link show'). I eventually connected via the cable and rebuild broadcom-wl, rebooted and it worked. This does't happen for each kernel update, though, so my assumptions may be wrong or simply not each kernel update requires the rebuild. Please correct me if this is impossible and I'm talking rubbish, I would love to learn the cause of this nuisance.
Is there a way to have certain packages rebuild with kernel updates? I haven't been using arch for too long, so maybe I am missing something obvious. Please give me some tips / links.
wujek
Last edited by wujek.srujek (2013-07-02 11:37:07)

Yes, check DKMS https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dy … le_Support
There is even a broadcom-wl package in AUR https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/broadcom-wl-dkms/

[SOLVED] missing package [python-appindicator]

First of all I must thank you guys for the amazing distribution and your hard work.
I have tried to run https://gist.github.com/blazeeboy/6201049 but it gave me the following error
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and then I started searching for python-appindicator package .. for a week I couldn't find something works.
that's it
Last edited by ServeR00T (2013-10-14 02:50:54)

Scimmia wrote:I believe it's part of the libappindicator package in the AUR. You may need to change the shebang to python2 instead of python to make it work as well.
Thank you Scimmia .. It's really simple, this works

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