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Hi, brand new arch user here. I just installed this weekend and have been trying to set things up to my liking. I had to recompile VLC with the '--enable-pvr' option so I can watch TV using my Hauppauge 150pvr card. All I did was copy the PKGBUILD and install files for vlc from the existing abs tree into a new directory in my home folder. I just added the --enable-pvr option, and changed the pkgver to '2' from '1'. Followed the rest of the instructions from the wiki. Things seemed to work, vlc now has the pvr function and I can watch TV again.
The problem now is that when I try to run 'pacman -Syu', it wants to change vlc back to the original version 1. I keep saying no, but how do I stop this and make my version the permanent one? Also, can I delete all of the unpacked files from the vlc tarball in my /home/myname/abs/vlc folder that I created?
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Welcome to the forums.
For the first question, add this line to your /etc/pacman.conf file. I put it under the HoldPkg line for cleanness:
IgnorePkg = vlc
For the second, you can delete all of the files from building the package.
Last edited by skottish (2008-07-21 22:13:03)
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Thanks for the quick response skottish. That seems to have done the trick. I'll have to go through the manuals in more detail when I have the time so I can figure out what I actually did!!
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Alternatively, and better IMO you can make a custom repo and move it on top of your /etc/pacman.conf repo list.
See the wiki on how to do that and the repo-add command
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Thanks dolby. I will look into doing this, especially as I add more custom packages over time.
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