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rabadash

Member

From: Seattle

Registered: 2005-04-01

Posts: 41

PKGBUILD Help needed

Ok, so I'm trying to install my first PKGBUILD it's XMMS2 from AUR.  Now after reading the wiki I'm not entirely sure because of this part of the AUR How-to:

    *  configure the package : generally, there is a little script called configure in the source directory which is used to configure the package (add or remove support for things, choose the install destination, ...) and check that your computer has all the software needed by the package. it can be run by :

./configure [[option]]

First when I run ./configure I get a message that says "no file or directory" second there is no script called "configure" in the file I decompressed, only two files called PKGBUILD and xmms2.install.

What am I missing here?

rayjgu3

Member

From: Chicago IL usa

Registered: 2004-07-04

Posts: 695

Re: PKGBUILD Help needed

with PKGBUILD its really cool
open a terminal/console cd /to/the/PKGBUILD
as root run "makepkg"
it will begin the building process
then when done , a new file will be in that dir ending in .pkg.tar.gz that is a arch package
pacman -U /path/to/new/****.pkg.tar.gz

its only recommended you edit the PKGBUILD if you want something specific or have problems building

tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: PKGBUILD Help needed

I'm not sure which howto you're looking at, but all you need is here, specifically, the "Using Packages from UNSUPPORTED" section. If/when you start making your own PKGBUILDs, you'll be dealing with ./configure etc, but not for the moment.