Arch Linux

linux4678

Member

Registered: 2015-01-07

Posts: 3

[Solved] Unable to install from the AUR

Hello i'm a newbie to this forum. In the the past week or so i haven't been able to install from the the AUR, i use packer i always get the same error message  (makepkg: invalid option '--asroot'
The build failed.) I have googled numerous times about this problem but haven't encountered anyone else who has had the the same issue. Can anyone help? it would be much appreciated.
Thank you

Last edited by linux4678 (2015-01-07 13:17:09)

Scimmia

Fellow

Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,729

Re: [Solved] Unable to install from the AUR

Stop running packer as root.

linux4678

Member

Registered: 2015-01-07

Posts: 3

Re: [Solved] Unable to install from the AUR

Thanks man, solved the problem.

Trilby

Inspector Parrot

Registered: 2011-11-29

Posts: 30,517

Website

Re: [Solved] Unable to install from the AUR

Welcome to the forums.  I'm curious what you tried searching for.  Issues related to this have been plastered all over the forums for the past week or so.  Here are just a few of the ones that came up immediately in a search for me:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=191916
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=191793
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=191635
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=191631

---

"UNIX is simple and coherent" - Dennis Ritchie; "GNU's Not Unix" - Richard Stallman

linux4678

Member

Registered: 2015-01-07

Posts: 3

Re: [Solved] Unable to install from the AUR

Thanks for the welcome, i certainly need to search the arch forums instead of just googling the problem. I will in the future love the distro by the way. Thanks again.

Trilby

Inspector Parrot

Registered: 2011-11-29

Posts: 30,517

Website

Re: [Solved] Unable to install from the AUR

In hindsight my search wasn't a 'vanilla' google search.  Our own forums' web-search tool is pretty much crap, but if you use duckduckgo you can use the !archlinux bang to specifically search our forums.  That seems to be the best way to find things here.  All those links above came from a ddg search for "--asroot !archlinux".

In any case, if this is fixed, please edit your first post to change the title and prepend "[SOLVED]"

---

"UNIX is simple and coherent" - Dennis Ritchie; "GNU's Not Unix" - Richard Stallman

FlyingHappy

Member

From: Cincinnati, OH

Registered: 2011-04-18

Posts: 192

Re: [Solved] Unable to install from the AUR

with google you can use

--asroot site:bbs.archlinux.org

and it works quite well also if you are stubborn about using google.

karol

Archivist

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [Solved] Unable to install from the AUR

I think it's all covered in the great Arch wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Help:Searching :-)

Trilby

Inspector Parrot

Registered: 2011-11-29

Posts: 30,517

Website

Re: [Solved] Unable to install from the AUR

Not really Karol, that seems to be just for searching the wiki.

---

"UNIX is simple and coherent" - Dennis Ritchie; "GNU's Not Unix" - Richard Stallman

karol

Archivist

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [Solved] Unable to install from the AUR

Ah, yes, it doesn't explicitly say you can do the same with the forum or the AUR.

fsckd

Forum Fellow

Registered: 2009-06-15

Posts: 4,173

Re: [Solved] Unable to install from the AUR

Moving from Pacman & Package Upgrade Issues to AUR Issues, Discussion & PKGBUILD Requests.

---

aur S & M :: forum rules :: Community Ethos
Resources for Women, POC, LGBT*, and allies