[solved] how to install a program onto an external harddrive? | Arch Linux Community | Page 1

lyric coyote Jan 7, 2023, 8:22 AM

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I have an external hard drive plugged into the laptop with ample space on it. I want to install android studio on it. I opened my file explorer, and went into the drive, right-clicked and opened in terminal. Now i'm in the drive in the terminal, or so I thought. I ran the command sudo pacman -S android-studio while being in this directory, and it installed it on my laptop instead so how do I install android studio to my external? I'm on Garuda Gnome Arch Linux. Thanks

lyric coyote Jan 7, 2023, 8:41 AM

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I figured I would try and just clone the repo and use the makepkg -si command, but then I ran into this issue

mekasu@FireDragonMek /r/m/m/M/Programs> cd android-studio/
mekasu@FireDragonMek /r/m/m/M/P/android-studio (master)> makepkg -si
==> Making package: android-studio 2021.3.1.17-1 (Sat 07 Jan 2023 02:38:40 AM CST)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Downloading android-studio-2021.3.1.17-linux.tar.gz...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  937M  100  937M    0     0  7465k      0  0:02:08  0:02:08 --:--:-- 7914k
  -> Found android-studio.desktop
  -> Found license.html
==> Validating source files with sha256sums...
    android-studio-2021.3.1.17-linux.tar.gz ... Passed
    android-studio.desktop ... Passed
    license.html ... Passed
==> Extracting sources...
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/run/media/mekasu/MEKS EXTERN/Programs/android-studio/src/android-studio-2021.3.1.17-linux.tar.gz': Operation not permitted
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/run/media/mekasu/MEKS EXTERN/Programs/android-studio/src/android-studio.desktop': Operation not permitted
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/run/media/mekasu/MEKS EXTERN/Programs/android-studio/src/license.html': Operation not permitted
==> Entering fakeroot environment...
==> Starting package()...
/run/media/mekasu/MEKS EXTERN/Programs/android-studio/PKGBUILD: line 37: cd: too many arguments
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package().
    Aborting...
mekasu@FireDragonMek /r/m/m/M/P/android-studio (master) [4]>

uneven tulip Jan 7, 2023, 8:46 AM

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Unix & Linux Stack Exchange

Arch linux install package to external media

This applies directly to arch linux, but is also relevant for some other linuxes/unices.

I want to install a package. Let's call this package leviathan. My harddrive is not large enough to store a...

lyric coyote Jan 7, 2023, 8:47 AM

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ok then I'll use my windows os to do it. thanks

uneven tulip Jan 7, 2023, 8:48 AM

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appimage would be best.

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https://github.com/hanzala123/arch2appimage

GitHub

GitHub - hanzala123/arch2appimage: This is a python script that dow...

This is a python script that downloads Arch Linux packages (Official/Chaotic AUR) and converts to an AppImage executable - GitHub - hanzala123/arch2appimage: This is a python script that downloads ...

lyric coyote Jan 7, 2023, 8:59 AM

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the only reason I'm wanting to do it is because my computer houses 2 os's and I'm low on space with my programmin projects on one and games on the other. I would just download android studio and use the android emulator from there, but I don't have enough space and it won't let the emulated device launch. I just tried to install android-emulator using sudo pacman -S android-emulator but it's not showing up in my app window, nor in terminal when I type android-emulator

gusty kayak Jan 7, 2023, 6:58 PM

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@lyric coyote google 'filesystem on two drives'

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i think btrfs and lvm can do it

lyric coyote Jan 8, 2023, 1:36 AM

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gusty kayak i think btrfs and lvm can do it

I decided to remove the other os, and just go with linux as my main. I've got it running now. My next question is how do I add android to path in my .back_profile? I forgot and I can't find the help thread I had a couple of months ago on it

gusty kayak Jan 8, 2023, 1:37 AM

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lyric coyote I decided to remove the other os, and just go with linux as my main. I've got it...

lmao back profile

lyric coyote Jan 8, 2023, 1:38 AM

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😂 im high let me be

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.bash_profile

gusty kayak Jan 8, 2023, 1:39 AM

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you can probably just PATH+=:/what/ev/er

lyric coyote Jan 8, 2023, 1:39 AM

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Failed to resolve the Android SDK path. Default install location not found: /home/mekasu/Android/sdk. Use ANDROID_HOME to set the Android SDK location.

gusty kayak Jan 8, 2023, 1:39 AM

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?

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when does this happen

lyric coyote Jan 8, 2023, 1:40 AM

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that's the error I get when trying to launch android from terminal using expo. I have to add android home and the path or whatever to my .bash_profile but I don't remember how to do it

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export ANDROID_HOME=$HOME/Android/Sdk
export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/tools```found it

gusty kayak Jan 8, 2023, 1:40 AM

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gusty kayak you can probably just `PATH+=:/what/ev/er`

just add that to the bash profile

gusty kayak Jan 8, 2023, 1:41 AM

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lyric coyote ``` export ANDROID_HOME=$HOME/Android/Sdk export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/tools`...

you can prolly just use += instead of =$path

lyric coyote Jan 8, 2023, 1:42 AM

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brb

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well that didn't work

cunning ibex Jan 8, 2023, 1:45 AM

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Why are you installing it to your home directory?

lyric coyote Jan 8, 2023, 1:46 AM

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idk. that's just where it downloads

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🤷

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where am I supposed to download it?

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I did use pacman.

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....

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so how do I set the path in the bash profile

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I've gotten the answer before, but it's been a minute since that thread and I can't find it

cunning ibex Jan 8, 2023, 1:55 AM

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add it to your .bashrc

lyric coyote Jan 8, 2023, 1:56 AM

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how

gusty kayak Jan 8, 2023, 1:57 AM

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christ the archwiki has everything

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https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Environment_variables#Per_user

Environment variables

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i doubt {} does anything there though

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well, it might

lyric coyote Jan 8, 2023, 1:58 AM

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gusty kayak christ the archwiki has everything

if I just googled everything, then what's the point of having a support discord with support channels

gusty kayak Jan 8, 2023, 1:59 AM

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?

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just check the wiki first is all

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also i sent you that so you can check it

lyric coyote Jan 8, 2023, 2:02 AM

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# ~/.bash_profile
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[[ -f ~/.bashrc ]] && . ~/.bashrc
export ANDROID_HOME=$HOME/Android/Sdk
export PATH=${PATH}:$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools
```I did this, logged out and back in and it still won't work.

cunning ibex Jan 8, 2023, 2:03 AM

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lyric coyote I figured I would try and just clone the repo and use the makepkg -si command, b...

If you try building the package in your home directory does it work?

lyric coyote Jan 8, 2023, 2:05 AM

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what do you mean? I didn't build anything since I used pacman?

cunning ibex Jan 8, 2023, 2:06 AM

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what?

lyric coyote Jan 8, 2023, 2:06 AM

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are you talking about cd'ing into android studio and running makepkg -si?

cunning ibex Jan 8, 2023, 2:07 AM

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you cloned the repo onto your external drive last time when it failed, but does building it on your main drive work?

lyric coyote Jan 8, 2023, 2:09 AM

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lyric coyote `Failed to resolve the Android SDK path. Default install location not found: /ho...

nope. never did that. Ended up fucking up my os, so I reinstalled and am only running linux now which gave me plenty of space for android studio so I didn't need the external anymore. Now my only problem is that when I run npm start inside of my react-native project, it gives the option of opening on android a and when I press that, it gives me the error which I replied to. Honestly, it doesn't really matter because I can run a virtual device on my computer next to my ide. I just don't like errors when I want to try something

lyric coyote Jan 8, 2023, 2:11 AM

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lyric coyote ``` # # ~/.bash_profile # [[ -f ~/.bashrc ]] && . ~/.bashrc export ANDROID_HOME...

so I'm trying to simply add ANDROID_HOME to my path in my bash profile. I've done it before, I just can't find the support thread where I got help with it. It was a very simple solution similiar to what I tried here, but I can't remember it exactly

cunning ibex Jan 8, 2023, 2:13 AM

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try doing it like this

A=abc
D=123

export A D

lyric coyote Jan 8, 2023, 2:18 AM

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what?

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I'm telling you it's what I've already written, just might have a thing or two wrong.

cunning ibex Jan 8, 2023, 2:20 AM

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ok

lyric coyote Jan 8, 2023, 2:27 AM

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cunning ibex ok

this is the thread I was talking about, This deals with uvicorn, but it's the same thing, just doing it for android home instead of uvicorn. I just don't remember how write it correctly

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it doesn't really matter. I can use the virtual device inside of android studio and I can use an external device as well. I can be happy with those. thank you for your help

#[solved] how to install a program onto an external harddrive?