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AJCR

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Registered: 2012-12-14

Posts: 14

[SOLVED] Trying to build Plymouth from the AUR (ERROR)

I keep trying to build plymouth from the AUR and the following error keeps happening at the very end:

/tmp/yaourt-tmp-aj/aur-plymouth/./PKGBUILD: line 50: patch: command not found
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...
==> ERROR: Makepkg was unable to build plymouth.

The command I am using is yaourt -S plymouth. Since that didn't work, I also tried the git version: yaourt -S plymouth-git.

Any suggestions on fixing this? I really wanted a good looking boot screen.

P.s., Splashy doesn't work either but with a completely different error (Checking for required M4 macros... libtool.m4 not found pkg.m4 not found).

Thank you,
AJ

Last edited by AJCR (2013-05-26 20:11:51)

WonderWoofy

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From: Los Gatos, CA

Registered: 2012-05-19

Posts: 8,414

Re: [SOLVED] Trying to build Plymouth from the AUR (ERROR)

What does "pacman -Q patch" tell you?

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [SOLVED] Trying to build Plymouth from the AUR (ERROR)

Please read the wiki on how to use the AUR: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR#Prerequisites

AJCR

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Registered: 2012-12-14

Posts: 14

Re: [SOLVED] Trying to build Plymouth from the AUR (ERROR)

WonderWoofy, ONCE AGAIN, thank you very much for the help. Patch was NOT installed. So I installed it and then there were some make errors. I reinstalled base-devel and then reran the plymouth install and it worked perfectly. I don't even know why I didn't think of checking to see if it was installed. Once again, thank you.

Last edited by AJCR (2013-05-26 20:12:25)