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andrekorol

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[SOLVED]Unable to run programs installed with aurutils

I have already installed aurutils and followed all the steps on the man page. But now when I install any application using aursync  (e.g., google-chrome, firefox-dev) I'm not able to run the applications. I check my custom database and I see the programs there but I just can't find a way to launch these applications from the terminal not even from the Gnome Launcher.

Last edited by andrekorol (2017-06-30 05:22:42)

Scimmia

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Re: [SOLVED]Unable to run programs installed with aurutils

Did you actually get them installed? pacman -Q google-chrome

andrekorol

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Re: [SOLVED]Unable to run programs installed with aurutils

Did you actually get them installed? pacman -Q google-chrome

It seems that they were not installed... When I run pacman -Q google-chrome I get this:
error: package 'google-chrome' was not found

I thought that aursync could already install the programs...

What do I need to do to actually install these programs after running aursync?

Last edited by andrekorol (2017-06-30 05:09:05)

Scimmia

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Re: [SOLVED]Unable to run programs installed with aurutils

You tell me; I've never used it.

andrekorol

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Re: [SOLVED]Unable to run programs installed with aurutils

Sorry for my lack of knowledge here Scimmia...
I figured it out after you pointed out that they were actually not installed.
So, I simply ran pacman -S google-chrome and it was perfectly installed!

When I first used Arch Linux a couple years ago I used to use yaourt to install packages from the AUR and with a single command it used to download and install any given package. But now that I installed Arch Linux again I decided to try aurutils instead of yaourt.

Anyway, thanks for saving my day again Scimmia! haha
Every time I read these Arch Linux forums or post something, it amazes me how good of a community we are!
Arch Linux is and will always be my favorite OS!

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Re: [SOLVED]Unable to run programs installed with aurutils

Please paste the exact steps you used to install one of these packages.

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andrekorol

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Re: [SOLVED]Unable to run programs installed with aurutils

Thanks for your attention jasonwryan! I simply didn't know I had to run pacman -S programname to install the packages after downloading and building.
I was used to yaourt but now I decided to give aurutils a try.

eschwartz

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Re: [SOLVED]Unable to run programs installed with aurutils

aurutils is great, it just has different usage semantics. aurutils creates and updates a local repo, in order that AUR packages should be accessible to pacman -Syu/pacman -S programname.

Note how the aursync manpage describes itself as "Download and build packages automatically to a local repository" with no mention of installing it afterward. This is because aurutils is all about managing a custom repo of (AUR?) packages, but it doesn't automatically assume that the reason you wanted to manage some AUR package is because you want to install it -- for example, you could just as easily be hosting it for use elsewhere.

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andrekorol

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Re: [SOLVED]Unable to run programs installed with aurutils

aurutils is great, it just has different usage semantics. aurutils creates and updates a local repo, in order that AUR packages should be accessible to pacman -Syu/pacman -S programname.

Note how the aursync manpage describes itself as "Download and build packages automatically to a local repository" with no mention of installing it afterward. This is because aurutils is all about managing a custom repo of (AUR?) packages, but it doesn't automatically assume that the reason you wanted to manage some AUR package is because you want to install it -- for example, you could just as easily be hosting it for use elsewhere.

Thank you for your answer and explanation Eschwartz!