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#1 2022-07-20 17:29:30

Katsura_Kotarou
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How do I install AUR packages into a different directory?

Hey,

I wanted to install Unreal Engine on my HDD (Not my SSD, the boot drive.).

I tried playing around with the PKGBUILD but couldn't figure out how to do it so I would appreciate if anyone could help me out.

Thanks

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#2 2022-07-20 17:38:32

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Re: How do I install AUR packages into a different directory?

My first inclination is to ask what is it you are really trying to do.

To answer your question, we need to understand what is mounted where.  Can you post the output of lsblk -f along with your PKGBUILD ?

Edit: Oh, and welcome to the forums.

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#3 2022-07-20 18:12:02

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Re: How do I install AUR packages into a different directory?


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#4 2022-07-21 08:26:14

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Re: How do I install AUR packages into a different directory?

lsblk:

NAME        FSTYPE  FSVER            LABEL         UUID                                 FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
sda
└─sda1      ntfs                     EEEEEEEEEEEEE 4E86713586711EA1
sdb         iso9660 Joliet Extension ARCH_202207   2022-07-01-13-20-00-00
├─sdb1      iso9660 Joliet Extension ARCH_202207   2022-07-01-13-20-00-00
└─sdb2      vfat    FAT16            ARCHISO_EFI   4D09-F5F8
nvme0n1
├─nvme0n1p1 vfat    FAT32                          2F08-1F47                               220M    27% /boot
├─nvme0n1p2 swap    1                              f1f0591e-f715-462a-a154-eb69fc5960d6                [SWAP]
├─nvme0n1p3 ext4    1.0                            a84dc4b3-94e0-4e6d-94c3-3f587e6127c5  178.3G    14% /
├─nvme0n1p4
├─nvme0n1p5 ntfs                                   C2809DBF809DB9FD
└─nvme0n1p6 vfat    FAT32                          A827-7217

The PKGBUILD was posted by Alad.

Edit: sda1 is where I want it to be installed.

Last edited by Katsura_Kotarou (2022-07-21 08:26:46)

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#5 2022-07-21 11:47:21

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Re: How do I install AUR packages into a different directory?

Installing things to ntfs is a terrible idea. It likely won't work anyway.

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#6 2022-07-21 16:39:45

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Re: How do I install AUR packages into a different directory?

Why is it such a terrible idea? Would a different file system have worked out?

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#7 2022-07-21 16:59:43

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Re: How do I install AUR packages into a different directory?

Mod note: Moving to AUR Issues.


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#8 2022-07-21 17:04:14

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Re: How do I install AUR packages into a different directory?

Katsura_Kotarou wrote:

Why is it such a terrible idea? Would a different file system have worked out?

If you aren't working with Windows, don't use NTFS. If you are installing AUR packages, install it to a non NTFS partition.


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#9 2022-07-22 09:47:30

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Re: How do I install AUR packages into a different directory?

Filesystems used on *nix systems support a basic set of permissions & attributes, NTFS uses a different set .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_system_permissions and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_attribute have more info .

There could be parts of the system where the diferences may not be an issue, especially when used for data-only files .


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