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lazylogic

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Registered: 2008-04-20

Posts: 18

Package won't work - how to make one myself?

After installing and upgrading Arch on my laptop, I wanted to add a battery monitoring application, kpoowersave (since I installed kdebase).

Noticed that it is not in pacman's repository. Installed yaourt and found it in AUR.
Unfortunately for me, both package in AUR isn't able to install on my laptop.

Looking around the wiki/faq and was not able to understand how I can go to source? and compile a version myself.
Understand that ABS shouldn't be the one as kpowersave isn't in pacman to start with.

Appreciate if someone to point me to the correct place.
I am trying to learn (note that I have no formal computer education so its going to be very challenging for me)

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_Marco_

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Registered: 2008-04-21

Posts: 242

Re: Package won't work - how to make one myself?

hi, report here the error you get building it..
anyway if it's the first time you use ABS/AUR you probably miss the "base-devel" package.
bye

edit:
wiki is what you're looking to if you want to learn..
see the "abs" and "makepkg" pages

Last edited by _Marco_ (2008-05-19 12:31:31)

lazylogic

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Registered: 2008-04-20

Posts: 18

Re: Package won't work - how to make one myself?

hi, report here the error you get building it..
anyway if it's the first time you use ABS/AUR you probably miss the "base-devel" package.
bye

edit:
wiki is what you're looking to if you want to learn..
see the "abs" and "makepkg" pages

hi Marco, thanks for replying

my earlier tries are with yaourt for kpowersave-svn 2951-1 and  kpowersave-devel 0.7.3-1.
lots of things free by and finally an error message.

anyway, just manage to get kpowersave-devel 0.7.3-1 compiled when following the AUR User Guidelines Wiki.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR … NSUPPORTED

downloaded the package from AUR into local and got it build there.

But another problem pops up here

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 68#p369468     

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then the guides
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lazylogic

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Registered: 2008-04-20

Posts: 18

Re: Package won't work - how to make one myself?

By the way, if there is a security update, will the AUR (unsupported branch) be updated or do users like us need to do it ourselves?

Last edited by lazylogic (2008-05-19 14:17:07)

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then the guides
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Jack B

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Registered: 2006-06-27

Posts: 107

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Re: Package won't work - how to make one myself?

Things in unsupported are exactly that: unsupported.  The PKGBUILDs are provided by users, and you are relying on that user to provide a safe, stable package.  You are also relying on that user to update it as and when necessary, though you can always update your own version yourself.
That said, most AUR packages are of a high standard, and are kept up to date, so all you'll have to do is check for updates regularly (manually or using yaourt).