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seth556

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Registered: 2008-02-04

Posts: 10

Wbar

Let me start by saying I really like arch from what I've seen.

But right now I can't seem to get wbar installed. When I do "make install" I get:
[root@default wbar]# make install
if [ "`whoami`" != "root" ]; then \
        echo "You must be root to install"; \
        exit 1; \
    fi
install -d /usr/share/wbar
awk '{if($1 ~ /i:/ || ($1 ~ /t:/ && NR<4)) print $1" /usr/share/wbar/"$2; else print $0;}' \
        ./dot.wbar > /usr/share/wbar/dot.wbar
cp -a ./iconpack /usr/share/wbar/iconpack
cp: cannot stat `./iconpack': No such file or directory
make: *** [install] Error 1

DonVla

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From: Bonn, Germany

Registered: 2007-06-07

Posts: 997

Re: Wbar

wbar is in AUR. you don't have to install it by hand.

seth556

Member

Registered: 2008-02-04

Posts: 10

Re: Wbar

Can you explain the simple steps to install from the pkgbuild file? I've read the wiki and setup abs but don't understand how to do the pkgbuild.

fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,411

Re: Wbar

The procedure is simple:

1) Find the aur package for the program you want to install using the browser and download the tarball.
2) Untar the tarball and change to the newly created directory.
3) type "makepkg" -> this will build arch package based on the instructions in the PKGBUILD file
4) install the newly created package with pacman -U package_filename.pkg.tar.gz
5) you're done

You can install "yaourt" from aur which makes this entire procedure automatic and also allows you to keep all the aur packages up to date.

seth556

Member

Registered: 2008-02-04

Posts: 10

Re: Wbar

I got to the part where I install it from pacman and get this error:
[root@default wbar]# pacman -U wbar-1.3.3-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
loading package data... done.
checking dependencies...
(1/1) checking for file conflicts                   [#####################] 100%
error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting files)
wbar: /usr/share/wbar/dot.wbar exists in filesystem

errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

Not sure what I'm doing now.

seth556

Member

Registered: 2008-02-04

Posts: 10

Re: Wbar

Oh never mind I installed it using yaourt. That was easy enough. Thanks for the help.