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Asked: 2026-06-01T02:49:23+00:00

I want to install packages on a ArchLinux machine, which does not have internet

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I want to install packages on a ArchLinux machine, which does not have internet connection.
I am following the link https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Offline_Installation_of_Packages (section “Normal Method: Pacman”).

The command “pacman -Sp –noconfirm xorg-server” lists the dependency but not the complete
url to download from. Any ideas how to get the list of dependent packages with the url to download from. I am using pacman version 4.0.2-libalpm v7.0.2.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I reproduced the behavior you describe by disabling all repository mirrors.

    $ pacman -Sp inkscape
gc-7.1-4-i686.pkg.tar.xz
gsl-1.15-2-i686.pkg.tar.xz
libsigc++-2.2.10-2-i686.pkg.tar.xz
glibmm-2.30.1-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
cairomm-1.10.0-2-i686.pkg.tar.xz
pangomm-2.28.4-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
atkmm-2.22.6-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
gtkmm-2.24.2-2-i686.pkg.tar.xz
imagemagick-6.7.6.2-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
inkscape-0.48.3.1-2-i686.pkg.tar.xz

    When I fix it back, the output looks like:

    $ pacman -Sp inkscape
ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/extra/os/i686/gc-7.1-4-i686.pkg.tar.xz
ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/extra/os/i686/gsl-1.15-2-i686.pkg.tar.xz
ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/extra/os/i686/libsigc++-2.2.10-2-i686.pkg.tar.xz
ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/extra/os/i686/glibmm-2.30.1-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/extra/os/i686/cairomm-1.10.0-2-i686.pkg.tar.xz
ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/extra/os/i686/pangomm-2.28.4-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/extra/os/i686/atkmm-2.22.6-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/extra/os/i686/gtkmm-2.24.2-2-i686.pkg.tar.xz
ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/extra/os/i686/imagemagick-6.7.6.2-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/extra/os/i686/inkscape-0.48.3.1-2-i686.pkg.tar.xz

    Now to what probably needs to be fixed.

    1) /etc/pacman.conf

    Here’s an excerpt from mine (“Repositories” section):

    # Repository entries are of the format:
#       [repo-name]
#       Server = ServerName
#       Include = IncludePath
#
# The header [repo-name] is crucial - it must be present and
# uncommented to enable the repo.
#

[core]
#SigLevel = PackageRequired
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[extra]
#SigLevel = PackageOptional
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[community]
#SigLevel = PackageOptional
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

    2) The mirror list (/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist)

    The mirror list that you include in pacman.conf needs to have some records uncommented.

    $ head /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
##
## Arch Linux repository mirrorlist
## Generated on 2011-08-16
##

## Any
Server = ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch

## Australia

    and so on. Note that the URLs generated by pacman -Sp actually use the first entry in the mirror list.

    3) Another note on the instructions in the ArchWiki article: you don’t actually need to download both .db and .tar.gz files. The .db files actually are tarballs themselves, and contain the very same files and folders. So you can just download core.db, community.db and extra.db and put them in /var/lib/pacman/sync.

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