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zahn01

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Registered: 2015-06-07

Posts: 54

Can't install from source and create a PLGBUILD FILE

Greetings and thanks for reading!

Error codes available upon request, but there was only one.

I am  attempting to install keepassx2.0.3 from source without success because I have no idea about how to go about acquiring or creating a PKGBUILD file, at least that’s my supposition, hence my reason for writing to you fine people. I’ve successfully used the Arch AUR on many occasions over the years, so I’ve blithely verified and used PKGBUILD files in the past, but generating one is outside of my purview.

Before anyone responds I’d like to briefly detail my experiences with Linux ( Arch Linux in particular) and FreeBSD so that one can respond with an answer at my limited level of understanding. I currently dualboot Arch Linux on an luks encrypted lvm with windows (soon to be encrypted via opensource) gpt. FreeBSD experience is FreeBSD Geli encryption on software raid1 and raid10 under msdos and partition raid mirroring and striping because the metadata issues at the time made disk mirroring problematic at that time. In others words, while I have no formal training in Linux I am not a slouch.

The problem in detail occurred as follows:

Downloaded sources, verified via pgp, untarred gz package. Cd into newly created directory and read every readme and install file. Successfully created a package directory that was not significantly different than what one would find on a Debian based distro. However, what now? From my reading and experience with the AUR, I assumed that I needed to do the makepkg -i thing. However, the error is no PKGBUILD file found, so how do I create one?

Thanks for reading.

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 19,113

Re: Can't install from source and create a PLGBUILD FILE

https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/comm … /keepassx2 keepassx2 is in community so you can look at the PKGBUILD arch is using or just download that package.
More in general bare PKGBUILDS to start creation from are in /usr/share/pacman/ provided by the pacman package and documentation on how to fill in each entry on the wiki page PKGBUILD.

zahn01

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Registered: 2015-06-07

Posts: 54

Re: Can't install from source and create a PLGBUILD FILE

First, to all who have read my original post thanks for reading, and to Logs in particular, thank you for reading and responding. I regret that circumstances prevented a more prompt response from me. Logs, as I understand your response, PKGBUILD templates can be found in /usr/share/pacman/, and there is a wiki for their usage. Perhaps, I would glean more knowledge if I started with packages that exist in the AUR. I then cross reference my attempts to make PKGBUILDS with the relevant PKGBUILDs in the AUR. I'll report back after success or enough failures, whichever comes first.