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roelof

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Registered: 2009-08-07

Posts: 99

Can I have Cinnamon-git from AUR on a fresh install

Hello,

As the title said Im looking for a way I can install Cinnamon-git from AUR on a fresh install without using another DE.

Roelof

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Can I have Cinnamon-git from AUR on a fresh install

Have you tried it? What went wrong?
I don't see why wouldn't it work.

roelof

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Registered: 2009-08-07

Posts: 99

Re: Can I have Cinnamon-git from AUR on a fresh install

I did not tried.
The normal way I know is to use a DE for downloading the PKGBUILD from AUR.
But then I have to install another DE before I can do that step.
And I do not want to install another DE so I can install this one.

So im looking for a way to achieve this ?

Roelof

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Can I have Cinnamon-git from AUR on a fresh install

What makes you think you need to install X at all before using AUR?
If you want, you can install X and some light WM, graphic browser etc., but it's in no way mandatory.

Anonymo

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Registered: 2005-04-07

Posts: 427

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Re: Can I have Cinnamon-git from AUR on a fresh install

You can download the PKGBUILD tarball from the AUR with wget.

wget https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ci/cinnamon-git/cinnamon-git.tar.gz

extract the tarball

tar -xzf foo.tar.gz

and cd into the folder. 
run

makepkg -sic

Please read:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ar … g_packages

Last edited by Anonymo (2013-08-12 15:48:50)

ilusi0n

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Registered: 2010-06-09

Posts: 187

Re: Can I have Cinnamon-git from AUR on a fresh install

Use links or wget to get the tarball, then install

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,729

Re: Can I have Cinnamon-git from AUR on a fresh install

Why would you have to install a DE to get the PKGBUILD? Curl/wget will get it just fine, as should links or any other console based browser.

Last edited by Scimmia (2013-08-12 15:42:40)

alphaniner

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From: Ancapistan

Registered: 2010-07-12

Posts: 2,810

Re: Can I have Cinnamon-git from AUR on a fresh install

Here's a simple bash function for getting AUR packages from the command line:

function aurget {

	if [[ ! $1 ]]
	then
		echo "No target specified."
	else
		curl -s "https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/${1:0:2}/$1/${1}.tar.gz" >"${1}.tar.gz"
	fi
}

Add that to your .bashrc, source it, then you can download AUR archives with

aurget <aur package name>

Last edited by alphaniner (2013-08-12 15:47:22)

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solar

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Registered: 2011-03-01

Posts: 77

Re: Can I have Cinnamon-git from AUR on a fresh install

alphaniner, I also do that on fresh installs.. but just wanted to add, there *are* some exceptions I think to the layout... at least there was some years ago.

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