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SwitchDhole

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Registered: 2015-02-01

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[SOLVED] Dependencies for Spotify

Hello there!

I got the Spotify tarball from the AUR. I extracted it and ran makepkg -s. I got the error

>error: target not found: libgcrypt15
>==> ERROR: 'pacman' failed to install missing dependencies.

I know libgcrypt15 in the AUR, but using the command

>pacman -Ss libgcrypt

Shows that libgcrypt is installed.
Is it still safe to install libgcrypt15? Will this interfere with the libgcrypt I already have installed?

Last edited by SwitchDhole (2015-02-20 15:44:20)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: [SOLVED] Dependencies for Spotify

Use 'pacman -Q foo', 'not 'pacman -Ss foo' to find out if foo is installed.
I've just built and installed libgcrypt15, it doesn't seem to break libgcrypt.

onslow77

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Registered: 2014-09-21

Posts: 283

Re: [SOLVED] Dependencies for Spotify

Hello,

I would not go ahead and install a package that require something that is not installed, better to make sure it is installe properly.

Have a look at the descriptions on how to query the the package database at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/pa … _databases

To find out if a package is installed you can do:

 pacman -Q | grep name_of_package 

in your case

 pacman -Q | grep libgcrypt 

Does the above return that you have "libgcrypt" installed?

Regards
Martin

SwitchDhole

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Re: [SOLVED] Dependencies for Spotify

Yes it does! However, this is not the libgcrypt15 I'm looking for.

I'm going to build libgcrypt15 from the AUR like karol did and see the outcome.

karol

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Re: [SOLVED] Dependencies for Spotify

@onslow77
You don't need grep for 'pacman -Q' i.e. when you know the exact name of the package. You may want to weed out false positives when using the search function though:

$ pacman -Qsq firefox
firefox
firefox-extension-ublock
firefox-nightly
palemoon-bin
pentadactyl-hg

SwitchDhole

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Re: [SOLVED] Dependencies for Spotify

It worked! How do I run Spotify?

ewaller

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Re: [SOLVED] Dependencies for Spotify

type spotify from a command line

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SwitchDhole

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Re: [SOLVED] Dependencies for Spotify

Thanks! It worked.

karol

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Re: [SOLVED] Dependencies for Spotify

Please remember to mark the thread as solved https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130309