Arch Linux

Drakx

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Registered: 2008-01-14

Posts: 27

Stupid question maybe?

Hi

I've noticed one or two things that im not 100% sure on and thats PKGBUILD files how do you use them? and are they AUR ? if not what is AUR and how do you use that?

Thanks.

May-C

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Registered: 2007-12-28

Posts: 83

Re: Stupid question maybe?

PKGBUILDs are files with which you can build a package. After they are built you can install them witch pacman. AUR has a community driven collection of PKGBUILDS but actually all the packages in archlinux are built with PKGBUILDS. You can even download this PKGBUILDs and modify them to your needs...

Hope this is more ore less understandable...
Following readings will help maybe:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ABS

rocknrolf77

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From: Oslo, Norway

Registered: 2007-05-07

Posts: 68

Re: Stupid question maybe?

For easier access to packages in aur you can install yaourt (A frontend to pacman. Not gui) Read the wiki for instructions on setting up the use of aur)

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