Re: Install a package to alternative location

2023-08-17 Thread Carl Lei
On Fri, 18 Aug 2023 11:00:37 +0900 "lain." wrote: > If directly from the pacman repo's: > pacman -S android-ndk -r ~/.local -b /var/lib/pacman Hi, this complains I am not root. I don't really want to have root-owned files in my home dir; also I'm curious, does pacman remember to write android-nd

Re: Install a package to alternative location

2023-08-17 Thread lain.
Could you at the very least test it yourself unstead of just assuming it will "likely" not work? I wouldn't be doing it myself this way if it wouldn't work. The only time it won't find libraries is if you don't set your LD_LIBRARY_PATH approprietely: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/.local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY

Re: Install a package to alternative location

2023-08-17 Thread mpan
my system partition is as good as full Hello. The primary thing to try would be freeing up space. I don’t know, what is your experience, but people very often miss the growing “/var/cache/pacman/pkg” directory. Even well-maintained it consumes a lot. Other than that, see the extra/ncdu pac

Re: Install a package to alternative location

2023-08-17 Thread Doug Newgard
On Fri, 18 Aug 2023 11:00:37 +0900 "lain." wrote: > This is how I have set it up: > /usr/bin = systemwide binaries > /usr/lib = systemwide libraries > ~/.local/bin = user binaries > ~/.local/lib = user libraries > > I don't really like to use /usr/local/* on Linux, because it's not as > portable

Re: Install a package to alternative location

2023-08-17 Thread lain.
This is how I have set it up: /usr/bin = systemwide binaries /usr/lib = systemwide libraries ~/.local/bin = user binaries ~/.local/lib = user libraries I don't really like to use /usr/local/* on Linux, because it's not as portable as just /usr. I use it only in FreeBSD and OpenBSD, simply because

Re: Install a package to alternative location

2023-08-17 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 10:20:30PM +0200, Jeanette C. wrote: > my system partition is as good as full, so I wonder if there is a safe > method to install packages to alternative locations. The packages in > question are android-studio-system and android-ndk. Do you have space somewhere else ? On

Re: Install a package to alternative location

2023-08-17 Thread Genes Lists
On 8/17/23 16:20, Jeanette C. wrote: Hey hey, my system partition is as good as full, so I wonder if there is a safe method to install packages to alternative locations. The packages in question are android-studio-system and android-ndk. Extending the system partition is unfeasible. Yes, it i

Install a package to alternative location

2023-08-17 Thread Jeanette C.
Hey hey, my system partition is as good as full, so I wonder if there is a safe method to install packages to alternative locations. The packages in question are android-studio-system and android-ndk. Extending the system partition is unfeasible. Yes, it is bad planning. Best wishes, Jeanett

kernel 6.4.11 bug prevents boot on some hardware

2023-08-17 Thread Genes Lists
Sharing in case this helps others. Also posted to arch forum: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=288095 There is a bug with the rtsx driver in 6.4.11 that prevented 1 machine from booting. It presented in my case as NVME failure, thus preventing machine from booting. 6.4.10 is fine