How to use AUR

frank_einstien · 2006-09-06 07:26:30

Hi

I looked aroung aur.archlinux.org and noticed a package lives. So I enabled the community repo intpacman.conf. Then I pacman -S community/lives and it says its not in db.

I read the wiki as well as posts from newbies but they made no sense to me.

So how do I install lives from AUR ?

And would lives move from AUR to communiy with low votes? Just asking

Sigi · 2006-09-06 07:38:45

I don't know if lives is in the community repo, I assume not.

Anyway, run following commands in a terminal:

cd /var/abs/local
wget http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lives/lives.tar.gz
tar zxf lives.tar.gz && rm lives.tar.gz
cd lives
makepkg
pacman -A lives-0.9.7_pre1-1.tar.gz

At least for the pacman-step root permissions are necessary. Its recommended to build packages (the makepkg-step) in the normal user account or to use a special user account (with write permissions only in /var/abs/local) - but not as root!

edit: small corrections

edit2: If you want to build AUR packages automatically have a look at qpkg, aurbuild or yaourt.

brazzmonkey · 2006-09-06 07:49:28

i recommend yaourt. follow the very steps Sigi explained (but for yaourt obviously). then you'll be able to easily install packages from AUR.

have fun

tomk · 2006-09-06 08:00:46

Before jumping straight in with the automated tools, I'd strongly recommend reading the AUR User Guidelines.

frank_einstien · 2006-09-06 10:22:10

Hi

The install was hitchless. Thanks

But I have new errors

[root@jesvin lives]# lives

(process:20069): Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library

(lives:20069): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
        Using the fallback 'C' locale.
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key

(lives:20069): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
[root@jesvin lives]#

Dont know whay this happened..

Could you help with this?

And again thanks for the prescice info

smoon · 2006-09-06 10:35:25

frank_einstien wrote:

Hi

The install was hitchless. Thanks

But I have new errors

[root@jesvin lives]# lives

(process:20069): Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library

(lives:20069): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
        Using the fallback 'C' locale.
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key

(lives:20069): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
[root@jesvin lives]#

Dont know whay this happened..

Could you help with this?

And again thanks for the prescice info

Looks like you try to run `lives' as root and since it is your users xsession the connection gets refused.

frank_einstien · 2006-09-06 11:34:22

HI

Smoon, You are right. My idiotism got the better of me :oops:

Thanks

Sigi · 2006-09-06 11:54:34

frank_einstien wrote:

And again thanks for the prescice info

You're welcome!

test1000 · 2006-09-06 14:44:09

@frank_einstein: you could still run xhost +localhost if you would like to run stuff as root from within X started as a user. man xhost.

toxic · 2006-09-06 22:06:43

test1000 wrote:

@frank_einstein: you could still run xhost +localhost if you would like to run stuff as root from within X started as a user. man xhost.

I'd recomend reading the manpages or some tutorial before doing that.
xhost +localhost gives everyone on your local machine X authority. Some times it might be better to restrict that to individuals.

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