[SOLVED] How to install packages manually?

[ngahbesola]

Hi everybody,

Is it possible to install packages manually? cuz I can't get my internet connection working with VL 6. With ubuntu I've done it "manually" with the keryx software here http://keryxproject.org/. It is an offline package management but just for debian and derivatives distro. Is there an analogue program with VL 6?

Thanks in advance,

[hata_ph]

u can manual download the *.tlz file from below link but you need to download the dependencies files as well

http://vectorlinux.osuosl.org/veclinux-6.0/

[furydragon]

Yes, You can do it.

First download required packages on your disk (it can be .tgz or .tlz or .rpm archive).
Run console and midnight commander in it as root.
Find your package.
Press F2 and choose install.

It's simplest way.

Other way is installing packages in console with slapt-get tools. Probe

Code:

slapt-get --help

for help.
During install put full path for packages you want install.

[GrannyGeek]

The command for manually installing packages is
installpkg
which you run as root at a command prompt in the directory where the packages reside.

You can install several at once by doing this:
installpkg *.tgz
or whatever the extension is.

You do, of course, have to download the packages in order to have them available to install. You could do this on someone else's computer and copy them to a flash drive to move them to your computer.
--GrannyGeek

[hata_ph]

If you use slapt-get or gslapt to download the packages, it will be in your /home/ftp folder...

[ngahbesola]

Hi everybody,

u can manual download the *.tlz file from below link but you need to download the dependencies files as well

http://vectorlinux.osuosl.org/veclinux-6.0/

Thanks for all the replies. I found the list of packages here http://vectorlinux.osuosl.org/veclinux-6.0/ and for instance if I want to install the R software, it gives me the following info :


PACKAGE NAME:  R-2.9.1-i586-1vl60.tlz
PACKAGE LOCATION:  ./base-apps
PACKAGE SIZE (compressed):  17025 K
PACKAGE SIZE (uncompressed):  66970 K
PACKAGE REQUIRED:  aaa_base >= 12.1.0-noarch-2 | glibc-solibs >= 2.7-i486-10,cairo >= 1.6.4-i586-1vl60,cxxlibs >= 6.0.9-i486-1 | gcc-g++ >= 4.2.3-i486-1,expat >= 2.0.1-i486-1,fontconfig >= 2.4.2-i486-2,freetype >= 2.3.8-i586-1vl60,gcc >= 4.2.3-i486-1,gcc-gfortran >= 4.2.3-i486-1,glib2 >= 2.16.3-i586-1gsb,libICE >= 1.0.4-i486-1,libSM >= 1.0.3-i486-1,libX11 >= 1.1.4-i486-1,libXau >= 1.0.3-i486-1,libXdmcp >= 1.0.2-i486-1,libXext >= 1.0.4-i486-1,libXmu >= 1.0.4-i486-1,libXrender >= 0.9.4-i486-1,libXt >= 1.0.5-i486-1,libjpeg >= 6b-i486-5,libpng >= 1.2.35-i586-1vl60,libtiff >= 3.8.2-i486-3,libxcb >= 1.0-i486-2,ncurses >= 5.6-i486-3,pango >= 1.20.0-i486-1,perl >= 5.10.0-i586-1vl60,pixman >= 0.10.0-i486-4,readline >= 5.2-i486-3,tcl >= 8.4.18-i486-1,tk >= 8.4.18-i486-1,zlib >= 1.2.3-i486-2
PACKAGE CONFLICTS: 
PACKAGE SUGGESTS: 
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION:
R: R (statistical computing and graphics)
R:
R: R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics
R: R provides a wide variety of statistical (linear and nonlinear
R: modelling, classical statistical tests, time-series analysis,
R: classification, clustering, ...) and graphical techniques, and is
R: highly extensible.
R: License: GPL
R: Authors: R Project
R: Website: http://www.r-project.org/


I understand that the required packages that I should download with the R-2.9.1-i586-1vl60.tlz package is given by the field PACKAGE REQUIRED: but what does it really means?
For instance, what does this line : aaa_base >= 12.1.0-noarch-2 | glibc-solibs >= 2.7-i486-10,cairo >= 1.6.4-i586-1vl60,cxxlibs >= 6.0.9-i486-1 | really mean?

After downloading all these required packages manually, I know that I should download the dependencies of all these required packages too. How could I know that I can stop to download some packages? cuz normally some packages should already be on my system.

I know that it will be a hard work but till now it is the only way that I found to add some softwares to my fresh VL 6 install. Maybe is it possible to write a script to automate it?

[hata_ph]

aaa_base >= 12.1.0-noarch-2

mean u need same or higher version of package install on your system.

You can use pkgtool or slapt-get --search xxx to check your currently installed package

[monfen]

Hi everybody,

Is it possible to install packages manually? cuz I can't get my internet connection working with VL 6. With ubuntu I've done it "manually" with the keryx software here http://keryxproject.org/. It is an offline package management but just for debian and derivatives distro. Is there an analogue program with VL 6?

Thanks in advance,

Which version of VL 6 have you installed - Standard, Kde-Classic, Light or Soho?!

[GrannyGeek]

Because you may already have the dependencies on your system, here's another way you can find out what you need.

Install just the R-2.9.1-i586-1vl60.tlz package using installpkg, as previously noted. After you install the package, run
ldconfig
as root from a command line. Then run R from a command line. If it starts up and runs fine, you're all set and do not need to install dependencies. If you get an error message complaining about a missing file, note the name of the missing file (usually something from /usr/lib) and see if you can download it from the repos just as you did the main package. Install the dependency and try again. When you stop getting complaints and the program starts and runs, you're done.

This can be tedious when you don't have an active Internet connection on your system. However, it sure beats downloading bunches of packages you may already have.
--GrannyGeek

[ngahbesola]

Hi everybody,

Is it possible to install packages manually? cuz I can't get my internet connection working with VL 6. With ubuntu I've done it "manually" with the keryx software here http://keryxproject.org/. It is an offline package management but just for debian and derivatives distro. Is there an analogue program with VL 6?

Thanks in advance,

Which version of VL 6 have you installed - Standard, Kde-Classic, Light or Soho?!

I've installed the Standard version.

[ngahbesola]

Because you may already have the dependencies on your system, here's another way you can find out what you need.

Install just the R-2.9.1-i586-1vl60.tlz package using installpkg, as previously noted. After you install the package, run
ldconfig
as root from a command line. Then run R from a command line. If it starts up and runs fine, you're all set and do not need to install dependencies. If you get an error message complaining about a missing file, note the name of the missing file (usually something from /usr/lib) and see if you can download it from the repos just as you did the main package. Install the dependency and try again. When you stop getting complaints and the program starts and runs, you're done.

This can be tedious when you don't have an active Internet connection on your system. However, it sure beats downloading bunches of packages you may already have.
--GrannyGeek

OK, I think it's a more convenient way.

[ngahbesola]

Because you may already have the dependencies on your system, here's another way you can find out what you need.

Install just the R-2.9.1-i586-1vl60.tlz package using installpkg, as previously noted. After you install the package, run
ldconfig
as root from a command line. Then run R from a command line. If it starts up and runs fine, you're all set and do not need to install dependencies. If you get an error message complaining about a missing file, note the name of the missing file (usually something from /usr/lib) and see if you can download it from the repos just as you did the main package. Install the dependency and try again. When you stop getting complaints and the program starts and runs, you're done.

This can be tedious when you don't have an active Internet connection on your system. However, it sure beats downloading bunches of packages you may already have.
--GrannyGeek

I've got this error message after installing R-2.9.1-i586-1vl60.tlz package and running R from a command line :

/usr/lib/R/bin/exec/R: error while loading shared libraries: libgfortran.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

but I don't see libgfortran package in the list of required package for R. With which may it come?

In the process below, I don't really understand the ldconfig part. When I run the ldconfig command it returns no output. Is this normal? What should this command do in this case?

[hata_ph]

It seem R require gcc-gfortran which is not available in the VL repo. Will try to build it and move it to VL repo.

[GrannyGeek]

In the process below, I don't really understand the ldconfig part. When I run the ldconfig command it returns no output. Is this normal? What should this command do in this case?

You must run ldconfig as root. You won't get output. ldconfig updates the systems' knowledge of libraries and library links. I don't really understand it, but if you add new libraries the system needs to know about it and that's what ldconfig does. It's probably unnecessary to run it most of the time when you install something, but it doesn't do any harm and doesn't take a lot of time on anything but an extremely slow computer. Using slapt-get or gslapt takes care of this automatically.

You might want to look at
man ldconfig

I see there is a Verbose mode, which prrints current version number, the name of each directory as it is scanned, and any links that are created. I've never used it. If you want Verbose mode, you do the command this way:
ldconfig -V

I hope you manage to get R installed.
--GrannyGeek

[pierce.jason]

It seem R require gcc-gfortran which is not available in the VL repo. Will try to build it and move it to VL repo.

gcc-fortran is also needed by R in VL7. It is also missing in VL7 repos.

EDIT:

After closer inspection, R only needs "libgfortran", NOT the actual fortran compiler. It seems "libgfortran" should be part of the gxx-libs or gcc-libs package