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Hello
I'm interested in several packages in AUR, but to be honest, it's the first time that I install an AUR pkg without using the yaourt frontend.
I just installed archey, I tried to follow the wiki but I would like to know if I followed all the steps correctly or not...
I've done:
sudo pacman -S fakeroot
wget http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/archey/archey.tar.gz
wget http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/archey/archey/PKGBUILD
makepkg -s
[makepkg -s installed git, and perl-error through pacman I supposed]
sudo pacman -U archey-20100704-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
My questions are:
1] I've done "sudo pacman -U archey-20100704-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz" but the wiki said "$ pacman -U /path/to/pkg.tar.gz" => because the prompt said something like "only root can perform this action" when I was not using sudo
2] After the installation, I've done "pacman -Qdt" and it appeared that git, and perl-error were not longer used, so I removed them => Is it a mistake ?
3] How can I update the AUR packages when a newer version will be released ?
Sorry for my english, and thank you for helping me understanding
Last edited by Lowra (2010-07-04 11:34:03)
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1) yes, using sudo is fine
2) you can remove them, They were only needed for making the package
3) there are many helpers to keep AUR packages up to date. See the wiki.
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Thank you Allan:
"3) there are many helpers to keep AUR packages up to date. See the wiki." => Sorry that was not that I wanted to say, I hope I will do this things in the future, but I have not enough experience for that now ^^
In fact, I wanted to say: How can I update the packages installed in my computer from AUR (example: archey) when the maintainer will update his program ?
Thanks again, it's nice to learn news things about Arch, AUR, and Linux ^^
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Thank you Allan:
"3) there are many helpers to keep AUR packages up to date. See the wiki." => Sorry that was not that I wanted to say, I hope I will do this things in the future, but I have not enough experience for that now ^^
In fact, I wanted to say: How can I update the packages installed in my computer from AUR (example: archey) when the maintainer will update his program ?
Thanks again, it's nice to learn news things about Arch, AUR, and Linux ^^
Read what Allan said again.
You want an AUR helper, like packer, clyde or bauerbill, for example. ;)
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AUR helper will allow you to do it automatically. Otherwise, you manually check for an update and just repeat what you have done.
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Okay, I'm giving a try with packer, I read a lot a good reviews of it
Thanks, problem solved ^^
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You forgot one important step:
$EDITOR PKGBUILD *.install
I've seen lots of strange and/or bad things.
A classic is '<command> /some/path' instead of '<command> $pkgdir/some/path'
Last edited by Mr.Elendig (2010-07-04 18:58:08)
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