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themacmeister

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Registered: 2009-11-16

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Never used Pacman or AUR... need simple howto?

I have been using RPM and APT my whole life... pacman is a mystery to me.

Also, everyone mentions that pacman requires AUR helper app, which I have no idea about.

I just need to install kernel-headers, make-essential, and broadcom-wl-dkms for my BCM94360CS2 wireless PCIEx1 card.

I believe everything else is supported OOTB.

Many thanks in advance for any help.

themacmeister

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Re: Never used Pacman or AUR... need simple howto?

NOTE: I can temporarily share the WiFi connection from laptop to PC via ethernet (Pop!_OS). I have done so before successfully...

I guess I can install directly from there to get WiFi driver installed (PS. broadcom-sta-dkms under Pop!_OS is almost unusable) :-(

ewaller

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Registered: 2009-07-13

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Re: Never used Pacman or AUR... need simple howto?

Also, everyone mentions that pacman requires AUR helper app,

Not many here would.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/pacman
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_Repository

Edit:  As to WiFi for install -- You can connect a phone in USB tether mode and just run dhcpcd to obtain an address.  Install your drivers and ou can switch over to them

Last edited by ewaller (2023-04-13 18:26:48)

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themacmeister

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Registered: 2009-11-16

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Re: Never used Pacman or AUR... need simple howto?

I think I answered my own question re: installing WiFi driver... but how about a quick cheat-sheet for pacman?

and of course, AUR needs to compile everything... how? via pacman again?

I assume (from what little I have learnt online) that installing a binary build from a repository is "pacman -S packagename"

but what to do with a PKGBUILD?

Cheers.

ewaller

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Re: Never used Pacman or AUR... need simple howto?

Did you follow the links I provided?

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Scimmia

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Re: Never used Pacman or AUR... need simple howto?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman/Rosetta

ewaller

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Re: Never used Pacman or AUR... need simple howto?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman/Rosetta

Wow, new one on me

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Trilby

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Re: Never used Pacman or AUR... need simple howto?

That can be a useful comparison, but there are some odd inaccuracies which may be mostly benign: e.g., 1) `makepkg -si PKGBUILD` is harmless, but the PKGBUILD argument is completely ignored and serves no purpose other than to lead to misunderstanding in those copy-pasting that command and 2) `pacman -Sii` or `-Qii` are suggested for getting information on which packages require a given package - but a single 'i' would acheive this and the additional 'i' adds additional information not at all relevant to this goal.

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Tétrapyle

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Registered: 2014-01-03

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Re: Never used Pacman or AUR... need simple howto?

I just need to install [...]
I believe everything else is supported OOTB.

If I may add something, I suggest you update regularly. Not for the sake of it, but because the distro seams to be meant to.