Pacman -U with dependencies

[timothj]

I have to use offline installation on a machine. So I tried installing maxima, using the pacman -U *.zst approach, having obtained the dependencies from a repository using an online machine. However, this requires an older sbcl (2.3.7-1) package than could be obtained from the repository (2.3.8-1), hence pacman fails because it wants to use the older version. Does this make the pacman -U *.zst approach unsuitable in this case, or is it unsuitable generally as these dependency issues almost always arise?

[linux-aarhus]

There is no guarantee such offline installation will be succesful.

Perhaps this comment on a recent thread can help you

Programs offline installer?

Consult pacman(8) — Arch manual pages caveats While it is technically possible to innstall a package using this approach, it is error prone and may create weird issues or errors on the target system. These errors is due to the rolling base of a Manjaro system. The dependencies of any given package may already be present as a dependency for another package. If a dependency is updated without the depending package(s) being updated as well, those depending package(s) may cease to fu…

If the system you want to sync is completely offline there was a recent topic on creating a copy of the stable branch repo for such purpose.

Updating an Offline Manjaro Installation

There has been a few questions over the years on this exact topic. This can be done using rsync - for some testing purpose I created the script to mimic an incomplete manjaro mirror with only stable branch. The script must be amended as the variables was for my hosted setup #!/bin/sh ####################################################### #### #### Variables to amend #### TARGET="/var/www/nix.dk/public_html/repos/manjaro" TMP="/var/www/nix.dk/.cache/manjaro" LOCK="/var/www/nix.dk/.cache/rsy…

Updating an Offline Manjaro Installation

You could provide a script with the disk When you label the disk you have the option of mounting by specifying the label - this removes any obstacles relating to mountpoint as you already know the device man mount #!/usr/bin/env bash ## sample script for updating a remote system with no network ## using a labeled filesystem on a portable medium ## mount using label e.g. ManjaroRepo sudo mount /dev/disk/by-label/ManjaroRepo /mnt ## start the python http server python -m http.server -d /mnt 8…

[zbe]

Partial updates are unsupported. And that is exactly what you are doing by updating only a part of the system.

[timothj]

Thank you both for the replies, a local offline repository it is. Thank you.