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Hi,
so I downloaded Cower today and according to the docs I should be able to update an AUR Package using "cower -u <packagename>". This does e.g. download the newest version of discord, but it seems that it doesn't install it at all. Isn't it supposed to also start the installation/updating process? The docs aren't clear here, am I supposed to run makepkg on myself or I'm doing something wrong here?
Edit: I see 2 possible problems which are discord package related. It seems it got a new AUR dependency, no idea how cower manages this. The second problem is, that this AUR dependencies pgp key wasn't in the keyring. cowers verbose flag didn't report anything of this.
Last edited by balance (2017-08-09 14:50:51)
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No cower is just an AUR/PKGBUILD download handler, building and installing are still responsibilites of makepkg and pacman, respectively.
Edit: This means that problem 2 becomes irrelevant since that happens at the makepkg step and problem 1 is answered by the documentation, namely passing -dd
Last edited by V1del (2017-08-09 15:22:45)
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@balance, If you are looking at cower, you may be interested in pacaur, a nice AUR helper which uses cower as backend. Hopefully it would easily accomplish what you want to do with cower. See also: pacaur thread
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ah thanks for the clarification! I might look into pacaur.
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Please mark as [SOLVED] by editing the title of your initial post if you feel that it is.
Last edited by V1del (2017-08-10 10:38:18)
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To answer ops question for any future travellers
cower -d pkgname
cd pkgname
makepkg -sric
See wiki for more on makepkg.
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