Installing a package from external storage (help needed)

Linux@lemmy.ml – 17 points – 1 months ago

So, I have a device running stripped down Ubuntu and I wanna get tic80 on it, I have a copy on a flash drive but idk how to install it. The machine is pretty much CLI only

Hey man, we're living parallel lives. I literally just did this yesterday. The command you're looking for is gdebi. Try gdebi (name of the package's file, uncompressed to a .deb) if you downloaded the .Deb from the website. tic80 will now be a usable command. To uninstall the tic80 command / program you can use apt uninstall tic80. It worked with and without sudo.

gdebi, apt can also do this these days.

Did you try

  sudo dpkg -i path/to/tic80-v1.1-linux.deb

Will try, once I find the filepath

If the device has network access, then you can just wget it and install it.

Its not on apt, I tried that

So, as I understand you, you've got a copy of tic80-v1.1-linux.deb on a USB stick and want to install this.

After you've mounted the USB-drive, cd to the directory where the downloaded deb-package is located. Then run

sudo dpkg -i tic80-v1.1-linux.deb
sudo apt -f install

to install the package and missing dependencies.

Apt can install a .deb and its dependencies in one go.

Cool. Thank you. I haven't looked into the changelog ever. Obviously this works for quite a while now (~2017?) without moving the deb-file to /var/cache/apt/archives/.

Now I'm looking for the directory. Would a USB be in /home?

Its a clockworkpi os machine

That depends on how you have mounted the device, as this is usually not done automatically. As I understand, your system doesn't have a desktop environment. So the you need to search e.g. the output of sudo dmesg after plugging in the USB stick, there should appear s.th. like /dev/sdb1 or alike. Then you can mount the partition e.g. to /mnt directory

sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt

You anyway can check the output of mount (without arguments) if and where the device was mounted successfully.

You later can safely unmount the USB stick by

sudo umount /dev/sdb1

I did sudo mount /dev/sda1 it returned this:

/dev/sda1: can't find in /etc/fstab

Yes, you need to specify the path where it should be mounted to. I proposed using /mnt.

Oh, thank you

Edit:

The solution worked, the software is for arm tho.

My dumbass water this time only to realise ita not riscv compatible

What kind of system do you have? I assumed it was a small RPi like device.

Its a uconsole r-01

As it is its kind of terrible but looks cool. Might upgrade to a cm4 but would like to use the machine

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