Is there a package by package installation method available? #169

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opened 2023-02-25 08:08:27 +01:00 by Amit0617 · 3 comments

Amit0617 commented

2023-02-25 08:08:27 +01:00

After adding the repository as a installation source. I can see a large list of package which would get reinstalled by these ones but I wanna move slowly to that.
So is there package by package installation method available where one can choose few packages only to reinstall and then slowly adding more and more packages.

After adding the repository as a installation source. I can see a large list of package which would get reinstalled by these ones but I wanna move slowly to that. So is there package by package installation method available where one can choose few packages only to reinstall and then slowly adding more and more packages.

anonfunc commented

2023-02-25 13:55:09 +01:00

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Nope, there is not. You can always downgrade packages again or downgrade selected packages if you feel like they are not working properly.

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Amit0617 commented

2023-03-07 07:42:51 +01:00

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Is there any problem in following this method. For example if I want to update firefox with this repository's binary. Then I can do yay firefox it will list firefox name or similar name packages from all repositories. Then I can give the option number for this repository and it will be installed.
I wanted to know since these are binaries all the time. Is there any possibility of dependency conflicts in using that method instead of pacman -Syu. I had tried pacman -S firefox also but that just reinstalls from the same repository from where it is downloaded already.

Is there any problem in following this method. For example if I want to update firefox with this repository's binary. Then I can do `yay firefox` it will list firefox name or similar name packages from all repositories. Then I can give the option number for this repository and it will be installed. I wanted to know since these are binaries all the time. Is there any possibility of dependency conflicts in using that method instead of `pacman -Syu`. I had tried `pacman -S firefox` also but that just reinstalls from the same repository from where it is downloaded already.

RubenKelevra commented

2023-05-12 19:05:50 +02:00

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Please update your whole system in one go. Otherwise there may be a mismatch of library versions etc.

Partly updating your system is not supported by ArchLinux.

Please update your whole system in one go. Otherwise there may be a mismatch of library versions etc. Partly updating your system is not supported by ArchLinux.

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