[SOLVED] Unsupported package: Potentially dangerous ! yaourt

icebox · 2013-09-26 18:37:15

Ok, so first of all I just want to say hi to everybody in this community. I just heard about Arch not a long time ago, and I wanted to give it a try. To make this quick. I installed Arch from an USB stick. The wireless connection doesn't work after install. I've tried wifi-menu, and didn't worked. Installed dialog and wpa_supplicant, also not working. Wifi-menu just gave me "Scanning for networks ... failed". I just bought today a USB wireless adaptor, and it seems to work perfectly with it, but not with the internal wireless card. I've read about my problem, and found out that the driver might be the problem.

lspci -k output:

09:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Device 0012
Kernel driver in use: bcma-pci-bridge
Kernel modules: bcma

I tried to install b43-firmware from AUR with yaourt. Command used: yaourt b43-firmware
Output:

b43-firmware 5.100.138-2 (Sat Nov 22 03:47:29 EET 2008)
( Unsupported package: Potentially dangerous ! )
==> Edit PKGBUILD ? [Y/n] ("A" to abort)
==> ------------------------------------

I've also read that this might happen when you don't have base-devel installed, but I've installed it with base, when I installed arch.

I really don't know what to do, I really need the wireless driver, and ALSO it's not only that package. I've tried other packages, and got the same error.

Waiting for suggestions guys, really need this to get it working

Last edited by icebox (2013-09-26 20:00:46)

karol · 2013-09-26 18:41:55

What error?
It's an informational massage that probably means 'it's a package from the AUR, you might want to check the PKGBUILD before installing it'.

You should first learn how to use just makepkg and pacman, leave AUR helpers like yaourt for later.

icebox · 2013-09-26 18:43:30

The error is unsupported package. Potentially dangerous. I guess that would be the error.

Last edited by icebox (2013-09-26 18:43:53)

icebox · 2013-09-26 18:45:18

I think it was my fault, I actually never typed "n", it's installing now, hope to get it working.

karol · 2013-09-26 18:45:47

Why guess?
Please read the wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ar … Repository

This article describes how to build unsupported software packages from the AUR.

Again, what makes you think it's an error?
Have you tried editing the PKGBUILD and going forward with the installation?

Edit:

icebox wrote:

I think it was my fault, I actually never typed "n", it's installing now, hope to get it working.

Ah, I see :-)

Last edited by karol (2013-09-26 18:46:29)

codeRiot666 · 2017-06-07 09:21:55

Hello Arch,
firstly how do we address the members of the community - Arch-ers, Arch-folk, nerds ;-) ?
Just started exploring arch a week bask and am having a lot of fun tinkering.
Recently moved to yaourt but am receiving the same warning when trying to install packages.

( Unsupported package: Potentially dangerous ! )

The packages are installed if I ignore it, but am wondering what it signifies and what I can/should do about it?

Last edited by codeRiot666 (2017-06-07 09:23:51)

WorMzy · 2017-06-07 09:40:29

You should read the topic instead of just necrobumping it.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … bumping.22

Closing.

Arch Linux

#1 2013-09-26 18:37:15

[SOLVED] Unsupported package: Potentially dangerous ! yaourt

#2 2013-09-26 18:41:55

Re: [SOLVED] Unsupported package: Potentially dangerous ! yaourt

#3 2013-09-26 18:43:30

Re: [SOLVED] Unsupported package: Potentially dangerous ! yaourt

#4 2013-09-26 18:45:18

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#5 2013-09-26 18:45:47

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#6 2017-06-07 09:21:55

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