On 03/09/2021 13:22, Björn Fries via arch-general wrote:
Hello,
On 9/3/21 12:15 PM, Peter Nabbefeld via arch-general wrote:
Is it possible to download this single package, without downloading full repository index and probably even updating everything to community-update?
manually download package from mirror, install with pacman -U filename.pkg.tar.zst Your mileage may vary, but you could add [community-testing] to /etc/pacman.conf but at the bottom of the file. Or at least below [community]. Then you can install things with `pacman -S community-testing/${pkgname}`.
However, this and your general idea are not great advice and will put your system in an unsupported state. Meaning, what you want to do is equivalent to a partial upgrade (like pacman -Sy & pacman -S something) and if you have issues later, Arch Linux support options will probably just refuse to help you. Hence, why it's called an unsupported state. -- Regards, Konstantin