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Cheesecake Charlie

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Registered: 2011-09-08

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[ SOLVED ] AUR Help

Silly question, but what do i add to pacman.conf to be able to download from AUR Repo ?

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Last edited by Cheesecake Charlie (2011-09-09 05:17:20)

olive

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Registered: 2008-06-22

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Re: [ SOLVED ] AUR Help

Pacman does not manage the AUR (because it is unsupported software). But there exists pacman-like programs that can manage the AUR (often using pacman). One of them that is pretty good is yaourt, available from the AUR. You have to install it by hand: see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ar … Repository. Be in mind that the AUR is unsupported. Expect breakage (it is common that softwares do not build).

Cheesecake Charlie

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Registered: 2011-09-08

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Re: [ SOLVED ] AUR Help

Yes i have just tried this, but i get an error about package-query missing

Steps to install Yaourt

Install the base-devel package using pacman. It contains the compiler and libraries needed to compile binaries from source.
$ pacman -S base-devel
Download Yaourt.tar.gz package and unpack it in a directory. You can use wget to download the package as follows :
$ wget http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/yaourt/yaourt.tar.gz
Use tar command to unpack it in a directory.

$ tar xvzf yaourt.tar.gz
Move to that directory.

$ cd yaourt
Build the yaourt package.
$ makepkg
After this operation, you will find a yaourt.pkg.tar.gz package in your current directory.

Install the package using pacman command as follows :
$ pacman -U yaourt.pkg.tar.gz

Having problems with the Broadcom drivers hence why i need yaourt

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: [ SOLVED ] AUR Help

You need to install the dependencies first.
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35915

frabjous

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Re: [ SOLVED ] AUR Help

Where did you get those instructions? Use the instructions here.

karol

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Re: [ SOLVED ] AUR Help

Where did you get those instructions? Use the instructions here.

+1
He probably got them from http://linuxandfriends.com/2009/09/30/a … -from-aur/ - they're out of date.

Always use the wiki (although it's sometimes out of date too ;P).

Cheesecake Charlie

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Registered: 2011-09-08

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Re: [ SOLVED ] AUR Help

Where did you get those instructions? Use the instructions here.

Many thanks, thats what i was looking for !!!!

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