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bunk

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What the heck is a PKGBUILD

I'm trying to install flash, but it won't pass the validation stage. The arch wiki recommends installing the PKGBUILD, but I have no idea what to do with it. I've googled PKGBUILD for the past 15 minutes and have only found stuff on the commands within a pkgbuild. Sweet, now I can customize it. How does one install said PKGBUILD?

Ashren

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Re: What the heck is a PKGBUILD

PKGBUILD's are the most important part of Arch Linux's build system. (ABS)

Read the wiki: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Makepkg

Try installing flash with "pacman -Sy flashplugin"

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Re: What the heck is a PKGBUILD

What Ashren said. I would also recommend reading this and this.

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Re: What the heck is a PKGBUILD

Read the wiki (those links given) and read around the forums. Also, welcome to Archlinux Forums!

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eldragon

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Re: What the heck is a PKGBUILD

in short, its the recipe makepkg uses to make your cake.

there, no car analogy

bunk

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Re: What the heck is a PKGBUILD

Try installing flash with "pacman -Sy flashplugin"

Doesn't work.

I'll read up on that and figure this out. Thanks for the infos guys.

Ok, so I got it installed. I created the link between the /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so and my home folder.

I  run "nspluginwrapper -v -a -i" and I get "Auto-install plugins from /home/mezz/.mozilla/plugins    Looking for plugins in /home/mezz/.mozilla/plugins"

no flash.

Last edited by bunk (2009-03-21 00:44:11)

ataraxia

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Re: What the heck is a PKGBUILD

It's not a 32-bit plugin for use with nspluginwrapper. It's a native 64-bit one.

Stythys

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Re: What the heck is a PKGBUILD

for the native flash some people need to reset the permissions on /usr/lib/mozilla to 755 and everything inside it

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Re: What the heck is a PKGBUILD

1. `man PKGBUILD`
2. http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fir … ot_working

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bunk

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Re: What the heck is a PKGBUILD

The permissions was it. Sorry to ask a stupid question that's readily documented....

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Re: What the heck is a PKGBUILD

The permissions was it. Sorry to ask a stupid question that's readily documented....

read also about "aur helpers" - tools like yaourt which are frontends to pacman  and use the AUR too

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bunk

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Re: What the heck is a PKGBUILD

That's actually how I installed it