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bibash

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From: Nepal

Registered: 2016-09-07

Posts: 6

How to install Aur Packages

Hello guys,

I have install yaourt successfully in my system to install AUR Pacakages.
But i am not able to install AUR packages like skypeforlinux-bin, rider-eap,monodevelop-stable
it shows error message in terminal
Message is :  ( Unsupported package: Potentially dangerous ! )

what i have to do to install package from AUR.

jasonwryan

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From: .nz

Registered: 2009-05-09

Posts: 30,424

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Re: How to install Aur Packages

Exactly how are you trying to install AUR packages? How did you install Arch?

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HiImTye

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From: Halifax, NS, Canada

Registered: 2012-05-09

Posts: 1,072

Re: How to install Aur Packages

personally, I prefer to use cower rather than yoaurt, because it doesn't rob you of the actual installation process, or add unnecessary complexity. if there's ever an issue with yoaurt, you will have to read the wiki to figure out how to replace it. if you use cower, the only difference in installing is that you download it manually, instead of downloading it with cower. repetition is the best method of learning.

also, if there's ever an issue with a package and you have to manually compile it with ABS, there is very little difference in using the ABS and using cower.

Last edited by HiImTye (2016-09-09 19:14:15)

bibash

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From: Nepal

Registered: 2016-09-07

Posts: 6

Re: How to install Aur Packages

hello @jasonwryan

I followed the instruction of this blog to install AUR Packages.

And i followd this to install arch linux in my PC

fredbezies

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Registered: 2011-07-28

Posts: 353

Re: How to install Aur Packages

personally, I prefer to use cower rather than yoaurt, because it doesn't rob you of the actual installation process, or add unnecessary complexity. if there's ever an issue with yoaurt, you will have to read the wiki to figure out how to replace it. if you use cower, the only difference in installing is that you download it manually, instead of downloading it with cower. repetition is the best method of learning.

also, if there's ever an issue with a package and you have to manually compile it with ABS, there is very little difference in using the ABS and using cower.

Stealing ?

Here is what I'm doing with yaourt to build packages :

yaourt -G name-of-package
cd name-of-package
makepkg -si

It is better to debug broken AUR packages...

After, you can choose what you want as AUR helper.

Alad

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From: Bagelstan

Registered: 2014-05-04

Posts: 2,412

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Re: How to install Aur Packages

also, if there's ever an issue with a package and you have to manually compile it with ABS, there is very little difference in using the ABS and using cower.

yaourt -G name-of-package

Or, you know, just use git directly.

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/foo.git

@bibash: That blog should be avoided; besides giving you a "black box" without explaining the underlying principles, it uses a third-party repository which is known to cause issues. Read these pages instead:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ar … Repository
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Makepkg

Last edited by Alad (2016-09-09 19:26:51)

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ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

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Re: How to install Aur Packages

Moving to AUR issues

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