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psilo357

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Registered: 2008-10-31

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[SOLVED]AUR help

So I am trying to install a package from AUR called sabnzbd.  It has a small list of dependencies for it, my question is do I have to install all of these myself beforehand?

Whenever i use the command 'makepkg -s' to use sudo to install all missing dependencies, it gets to the first one and says:

par2cmdline package not found, searching for group...
error: 'par2cmdline': not found in sync db
==> ERROR: Pacman failed to install missing dependencies.

so i guess its just saying it can't find the package.  Is tehre a way to add AUR as a repository so it updates/downloads like the rest of them [community] [extra] etc.?

thanks

Last edited by psilo357 (2008-11-03 02:44:39)

Allan

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Re: [SOLVED]AUR help

You will need to install dependencies from the AUR manually.  Build par2cmdline and then install it with "pacman -U --asdep par2cmdline-<ver>-<arch>.tar.gz"  where ver and arch are replaced with the appropriate values...

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psilo357

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Re: [SOLVED]AUR help

Ok, that makes sense, thanks.  Just makes it a little more work when there are 6 dependencies.

thanks again

Allan

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Re: [SOLVED]AUR help

There are unofficial pacman/AUR wrappers that can handle this for you.  You may want to look into yaourt.

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psilo357

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Registered: 2008-10-31

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Re: [SOLVED]AUR help

Alright, downloaded, built, installed yaourt and that is much easier to use for packages in AUR than a manual way, did all of the install of sabnzbd for me, after just asking about editing the PKGBUILD files.

thanks a lot