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greenleafvolatile

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Registered: 2019-08-10

Posts: 20

Recompiling package

Well, I don't think questions come more nooby that this one:

When some says "package so-and so worked well till recently and some updates forced me to recompile it", what do they mean by recompiling? Just that they removed the package  via pacman (if installed via pacman) and reinstall via pacman?

E.g. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/megasync/

Last edited by greenleafvolatile (2021-02-20 15:04:43)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,346

Re: Recompiling package

Pacman installs binaries, so reinstalling binaries doesn't lead to a recompile.

Recompiling is taking the (human-readable) source code of the program and building it again so you have an (machine) executable binary. Packages on the AUR are PKGBUILDs that reference the software they intend to install and contain instructions on how to build them from source. So when you run makepkg on a PKGBUILD that normally leads to a package being compiled.

You should read https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ar … Repository and https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Makepkg