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nikinbaidarr

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[SOLVED] pacman throws error:target not found: <suckless programs>

Just did a fresh install of Arch Linux for the first time. So you can say I'm fairly new to arch.

I am trying to set st, the suckless terminal emulator as my default but whenever I run

 pacman -S st 

or basically anyother suckless like program like tabbed. I get "error: target not found: st"

Other programs I've tried to install have been a success. I don't know if I am doing something wrong.

Here's my /etc/pacman.conf:

 [testing]
 Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
  
  [core]
  Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
  
  [extra]
  Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
  
  [community-testing]
  Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
  
  [community]
  Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
  
  # If you want to run 32 bit applications on your x86_64 system,
  # enable the multilib repositories as required here.
  
  #[multilib-testing]
  #Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
  
  #[multilib]
  #Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

After I had uncommented those lines on my etc/pacman.conf, I have also run

 pacman -Syu 

.

Last edited by nikinbaidarr (2021-05-07 07:28:09)

Slithery

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Re: [SOLVED] pacman throws error:target not found: <suckless programs>

That's because st isn't in the repos, it's in the AUR....
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/St

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Re: [SOLVED] pacman throws error:target not found: <suckless programs>

Mod note: moving to AUR Issues

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jasonwryan

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Re: [SOLVED] pacman throws error:target not found: <suckless programs>

For a first time Arch user, are you really sure you want to enable the [testing] repos?

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nikinbaidarr

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Re: [SOLVED] pacman throws error:target not found: <suckless programs>

That's because st isn't in the repos, it's in the AUR....
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/St

So that means I've to git clone and make build? Right?

nikinbaidarr

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Re: [SOLVED] pacman throws error:target not found: <suckless programs>

For a first time Arch user, are you really sure you want to enable the [testing] repos?

Yes. I'm not new to Linux. Also, have used Manjaro in the past.

jasonwryan

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Re: [SOLVED] pacman throws error:target not found: <suckless programs>

That's because st isn't in the repos, it's in the AUR....
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/St

So that means I've to git clone and make build? Right?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_Repository

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nikinbaidarr

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Re: [SOLVED] pacman throws error:target not found: <suckless programs>

That's because st isn't in the repos, it's in the AUR....
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/St

So that means I've to git clone and make build? Right?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_Repository

This helped. Thank you.
I also wanted to test alacritty.

pacman -S alacritty 

installed it. But when i run it i ger an error that reads Alacritty encountered an unrecoverable error:
What am I doing wrong here?

jasonwryan

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Re: [SOLVED] pacman throws error:target not found: <suckless programs>

That's a separate issue: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … ow_to_post

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nikinbaidarr

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Re: [SOLVED] pacman throws error:target not found: <suckless programs>

That's a separate issue: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … ow_to_post

Thanks