Install VLC and preserve downloaded rpm files for use later

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#1

I want to install VLC and keep the all the installation files that are downloaded so that I can reuse them latter, I live have limited bandwidth.

#2

From the zypper MAN pages, you can download packages without installing. Copy your packages before running your actual install.


$ zypper --download-only *packagename*

HTH,
TSU

#3

open terminal and add packman

sudo zypper ar -f http://packman.inode.at/suse/12.2/packman.repo

Then perform dry run / install for vlc and note down the package names

$sudo zypper in -D vlc
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Resolving package dependencies...

The following NEW packages are going to be installed:
  libcddb2 libdvbpsi7 libebml3 libfluidsynth1 libftgl2 libGLEW1_7 liblash1 
  libmatroska5 libmtp9 libprojectM2 libtar1 libupnp6 libvlc5 libvlccore5 
  libxcb-composite0 vlc vlc-noX vlc-qt 

18 new packages to install.
Overall download size: 8.8 MiB. After the operation, additional 41.5 MiB will 
be used.
Continue? [y/n/?] (y): y

Download packages

$sudo zypper in -d vlc

Get the downloaded rpms from below location and place them in your home folder

/var/cache/zypp/packages

Later navigate to the folder where the rpms are present in terminal and run the command like. Ensure that you mention all rpm names

zypper in vlc-2.0.5-*.rpm vlc-noX-*.rpm vlc-qt-*.rpm ...
#4

On 2012-12-27 17:26, pranav135 wrote:
>
> I want to install VLC and keep the all the installation files that are
> downloaded so that I can reuse them latter, I live have limited
> bandwidth.

Modify the packman repo, and probably all repos, so that they keep
downloaded packages. This is a tick box in yast repository management,
or an option in zypper modify repo.

Once done, what you install will be kept somewhere under


/var/cache/zypp/packages/{repository alias}/

The next step if you have several computers is to share that directory
via nfs, and make sure all computers use the same alias for the repos,
or use symlinks.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4, with Evergreen, x86_64 “Celadon” (Minas Tirith))

#5

after downloading and moving rpms to home or something you can clean up the files from cache using

sudo zypper clean --all
#6

On 2012-12-27 20:06, vazhavandan wrote:
>
> after downloading and moving rpms to home or something you can clean up
> the files from cache using
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> sudo zypper clean --all
> --------------------

Why move them at all? I keep all downloaded packages, for the case I
have to reinstall, install another machine, or install a virtual
machine. All of them share the same rpm storage.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4, with Evergreen, x86_64 “Celadon” (Minas Tirith))

#7

if i don’t move them all to home there might be longer YaST start up time

#8

On 2012-12-28 04:16, vazhavandan wrote:

> if i don’t move them all to home there might be longer YaST start up
> time

Not at all, start up time is the same. I have several gigabytes there,
no difference.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4, with Evergreen, x86_64 “Celadon” (Minas Tirith))