[SOLVED] Can't Install tar.gz with pacman -U

[ArchiMark]

When I try to install from a tar.gz file I downloaded, I get:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
# pacman -U /root/pccardctl.tar.gz
error: missing package metadata in /root/pccardctl.tar.gz
error: '/root/pccardctl.tar.gz' : invalid or corrupted package
')

I've redownloaded file again, but same error message.

I tried some other tar.gz files and get same error message.

I know someone else that downloaded and installed this way and it worked for them.

Any suggestions as to how to get this working?

Thanks,

Mark

[moonman]

Someone else you saw probably downloaded something like *.pkg.tar.xz which was created my makepkg.
What you are trying to do will never work because it is not a package that you feeding to pacman.

[ArchiMark]

Thanks for your help....

The other person downloaded the exact same file from the forum where it was posted....

Perhaps when the file is uncompressed, it is a *.pkg.tar.xz file...

Or a *.tar.xz file....

So, sounds like you're saying that only a *.pkg.tar.xz file will get installed via pacman......

If so, that I assume that file was installed another way.....

[WarheadsSE]

pccardctl is used for PCMCIA, is it not?

[ArchiMark]

Yes.....

OK, got it figured out finally.....

pccardctl was a binary, so, just needed to decompress it....

systemd file was a pkg file after I decompressed it. Then I was able to use pacman -U to install it....

Problem was that I was started with trying to install the pccardctl file, so of course pacman wouldn't work on it.....

Thanks for your help.