How to ignore updates when installing packages in live environment?

treehouse55

I might need to switch desktop environment and I'm checking if everything I need works in the live environment.

It makes sense when installing packages it upgrades the system first if there are pending updates, but in live environment I have the problem my USB-stick runs out of space before all packages are installed and I would need to install some extra packages to try out if things work as expected.

I tried sudo eopkg --ignore-safety install <name-of-package> but the updates will still run first.

Staudey

treehouse55 Chances are everything you need doesn't work if you don't let it do a proper update. Anyway, I'd try it with sudo eopkg --ignore-safety --ignore-revdeps-of-deps-check --ignore-dependency install
One or more of these switches might be redundant ^^

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treehouse55 The whole live environment resides in your RAM on runtime, so it's not the USB stick running out of space. Nothing is written onto the USB media.

treehouse55

Staudey

Thanks, I tried already and got it working with: sudo eopkg install --ignore-comar --ignore-safety <my packages>.

Last time maybe I messed up because I ran sudo eopkg up first to refresh (without proceeding the upgrade).

Makes sense this is not recommended but it's for testing and in my use case it worked fine this time around.

treehouse55

[deleted] Good to know