I was just doing it manually... downloaded the tar.gz file, extracted it in homedir, ran makepkg, then "pacman -U /home/package/tar.gz"
Two things here:
1) You don't do pacman -U on tar.gz file. You do it on xyz.tar.xz file, which you'll get after compiling/making the package.
2) To overcome this hassle run makepkg with -i flag. Like:
$ makepkg -si
The "-s" flag will automatically download all the dependencies needed (if they are in official repos). Also "man makepkg" will help you with other flag options too. On a second note I don't use any AUR helpers. They tend to break more than often for me, doing it manually is the way to go (at least for me and IMHO for the starters, you should do it manually too ).
]]>I was just doing it manually... downloaded the tar.gz file, extracted it in homedir, ran makepkg, then "pacman -U /home/package/tar.gz"
i'll have to look into that.
But it was my school network that was blocking the adobe air download after all thank you for your help guy i've got it working now only to jump straight into another issue with another adobe product which i'll make a new thread for.
]]>May be it is a problem related to the tool you are using to get the file?
R.
]]>But still not quite working. i get an FTP error while trying to download AdbeRdr....
it might have something to do with the fact that i'm on a school network. i can confirm that later today.
]]>Instructions to use the AUR start here
]]>i wonder if i did something wrong...
from pacman.conf
#[testing]
#SigLevel = PackageRequired
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist[core]
SigLevel = PackageRequired
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist[extra]
SigLevel = PackageRequired
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist#[community-testing]
#SigLevel = PackageRequired
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist[community]
SigLevel = PackageRequired
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist# If you want to run 32 bit applications on your x86_64 system,
# enable the multilib repositories as required here.#[multilib-testing]
#SigLevel = PackageRequired
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist[multilib]
SigLevel = PackageRequired
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
nothing wrong with this right?
]]>https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/acroread/
But you should activate the Multilib-Repo. Adobe Reader is 32bit and it needs some 32bit-libs on Arch 64bit.
]]>to find this
Should i bail on adobe reader and use something else?(i've found okular and evince, but i still want adobe reader since thats what i'm used to.)
Or is there a simple way to install adobe reader?