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mwagenaar

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Registered: 2007-06-12

Posts: 5

troubles while using AUR

After two years of using Ubuntu I'm trying to improve my linux knowledge by using arch. It's a really nice distro, i have been able to configure my whole machine from the ground-up with no real issues. But now I bumped in to something.

Because I can't find xlockmore in the normal repositories I am now trying to use an AUR package for the first time. I am following the guide on the wiki: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/New … se_the_AUR

So, I downloaded the package, untar/gz'ed it and trying to run makepkg (as root). The output is as follows:

[root@zaphod xlockmore]# makepkg 
==> Making package: xlockmore 5.21-2 (Tue Jun 12 13:58:11 PDT 2007)
==> Checking Runtime Dependencies...
==> Checking Buildtime Dependencies...
==> Retrieving Sources...
   -> Downloading xlockmore-5.21.tar.bz2
--13:58:11--  ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/tux/bagleyd/xlockmore/xlockmore-5.21.tar.bz2
           => `xlockmore-5.21.tar.bz2'
Resolving ftp.tux.org... 207.172.156.132
Connecting to ftp.tux.org|207.172.156.132|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done.    ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done.  ==> CWD /pub/tux/bagleyd/xlockmore ... done.
==> PASV ... couldn't connect to 207.172.156.132 port 46026: No route to host
==> ERROR: Failure while downloading xlockmore-5.21.tar.bz2
==> Aborting...

While searching the forums and the wiki, I encountered some posts about adding NoPassiveFtp to pacman.conf. That doesn't really help:

[root@zaphod xlockmore]# makepkg 
==> Making package: xlockmore 5.21-2 (Tue Jun 12 13:59:15 PDT 2007)
==> Checking Runtime Dependencies...
==> Checking Buildtime Dependencies...
==> Retrieving Sources...
   -> Downloading xlockmore-5.21.tar.bz2
--13:59:15--  ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/tux/bagleyd/xlockmore/xlockmore-5.21.tar.bz2
           => `xlockmore-5.21.tar.bz2'
Resolving ftp.tux.org... 207.172.156.132
Connecting to ftp.tux.org|207.172.156.132|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... 
Login incorrect.
==> ERROR: Failure while downloading xlockmore-5.21.tar.bz2
==> Aborting...

Do I have to add my AUR user/pass somewhere? Or is there some other problem?

dolby

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From: 1992

Registered: 2006-08-08

Posts: 1,581

Re: troubles while using AUR

download the package manually and save it in the same dir as the PKGBUILD. the problem is that the sources url in the PKGBUILD is wrong or site is down etc.

Last edited by dolby (2007-06-12 12:22:48)

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mykey

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From: out of the blue

Registered: 2007-03-02

Posts: 113

Re: troubles while using AUR

you can download the source package manually and throw it into your building directory - the ftp server can be reached - it just seems a little slow on the login

EDIT: someone was faster here

Last edited by mykey (2007-06-12 12:27:49)

mwagenaar

Member

Registered: 2007-06-12

Posts: 5

Re: troubles while using AUR

Thanks alot, worked like a charm

Snowman

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: troubles while using AUR

Also, you shouldn't build your packages as root. Build them as a regular user (with fakeroot) .