[Solved] aur help. explaination needed

nixIT · 2010-01-23 00:14:07

Hello all,

pretty new to Arch, and so far am loving it.

I have a question, I'm trying to install tsclient2, so I can connect to my windows servers at work and when I issue the command:

yaourt -Sy tsclient2

I get the following:

Edit the PKGBUILD (highly recommended for security reasons)

What does that mean?

--nixIT

Last edited by nixIT (2010-09-15 02:23:34)

jasonwryan · 2010-01-23 00:16:18

Its asking you to look at the PKGBUILD so you are aware what it is going to install/remove/b0rk on your system - it is a good idea to enter 'y' at that point and look through the file...

brisbin33 · 2010-01-23 00:18:25

Well, welcome to arch.

first, it's not recommended to -Sy <package> as things can get out of sync by updating your local database then installing just one package. better off to -Syu to bring you whole system up to date, then -S <package> to install what you want.

second, it's not recommended to use yaourt until you understand what it's doing and how it's doing it. read the wiki pages regarding AUR, ABS, and MAKEPKG.

in a nutshell, PKGBUILDs are written by anyone and yaourt is about to run the code on your system. therefore, the smart thing to do would be to look at it before you do that.

nixIT · 2010-01-23 01:06:16

Thank you both, I will do that.

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[Solved] aur help. explaination needed

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Re: [Solved] aur help. explaination needed

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Re: [Solved] aur help. explaination needed

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Re: [Solved] aur help. explaination needed

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