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smoula

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Registered: 2014-09-20

Posts: 2

aur.db

Hi,
I am new on Arch Linux, so I tried to add AUR repo to pacmam (yaourt), but I dont know how. I installed yaourt, and try :

$ yaourt -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
archlinuxfr is up to date
error: failed retrieving file 'aur.db' from aur.archlinux.org : The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found
error: failed to update aur (download library error)
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not find database)
warning: database file for 'aur' does not exist
:: Starting full system upgrade...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not find database)

my /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist is not changed.
my /etc/pacman.conf is :

(first about 100lines not changed)

[archlinuxfr]
Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/x86_64

[aur]
Server =http://aur.archlinux.org

Do anyone help mě - I think I need http address of AUR releases/updates ... I cannot find it :-\ ...Or can you send me your pacman.conf or /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist ?
Thanks for you help.

smoula

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,701

Re: aur.db

Please read https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR

It looks like you tried to add the AUR to pacman.conf.  It does not work that way.

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smoula

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Registered: 2014-09-20

Posts: 2

Re: aur.db

Ok...If I understand correctly, AUR is not standard repo ? Its just for sending new packages and then good of them will be added to comunity repo? So its not possible to install AUR packages via pacman ?

ugjka

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From: Latvia

Registered: 2014-04-01

Posts: 1,957

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Re: aur.db

That wiki page is available in many other languages if you don't understand english very well.

Last edited by ugjka (2014-09-20 18:43:26)

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ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

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Re: aur.db

Ok...If I understand correctly, AUR is not standard repo ? Its just for sending new packages and then good of them will be added to comunity repo? So its not possible to install AUR packages via pacman ?

That is mostly correct.   You use makepkg to compile and build something from the AUR.  At the end of that process, you will have a package that you built that can be installed and managed using pacman -U

Things in the AUR come from random people around the internet.  That is why we do not permit binaries.  Anyone can audit what is in an AUR.  Some things in the AUR are shepherded by our Trusted Users.  They take care of vetting the files, and making the binaries available.

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