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#1 2010-12-31 19:35:06

Don Coyote
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[Solved]AUR package upgrade

I'm not seeing anything in the wikis or forums to answer this directly - to upgrade an AUR package, should I just repeat the whole installation process used to originally install or is there a better method?

Last edited by Don Coyote (2011-01-08 19:43:53)

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#2 2010-12-31 19:49:02

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Re: [Solved]AUR package upgrade

You can always use a pacman wrapper like bauerbill or yaourt to automate aur installation.
Full list: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_Helpers

Last edited by kaszak696 (2010-12-31 20:01:56)


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#3 2010-12-31 19:53:03

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Re: [Solved]AUR package upgrade

I've had success keeping up to date, including packages from AUR, with

$ yaourt -Syu --aur

If you've not used yaourt see

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Yaourt

I used the repository method to install yaourt and keep it up to date.


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#4 2010-12-31 20:06:41

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Re: [Solved]AUR package upgrade

An AUR Helper will still download an d install it as a new package since most of them tend to be a downloaded tarball and git ones are git clone rather than git pull which is still exacerbated by some of it being done in /tmp. Yaourt puts its build files into /tmp/yaourt-user and then installs the package from /tmp using pacman -U

For git/svn that you frequently update you might be better off maintaining it "offline" (without using pacman)

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#5 2010-12-31 20:13:39

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Re: [Solved]AUR package upgrade

SS4 wrote:

For git/svn that you frequently update you might be better off maintaining it "offline" (without using pacman)

Only install without pacman if you really understand what you are doing and are fully prepared to fix any breakages.


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#6 2011-01-08 19:43:32

Don Coyote
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Re: [Solved]AUR package upgrade

I went with yaourt and, after figuring out a few dependency issues, it worked well for me. Thanks for the tips.

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