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oddsocks

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Registered: 2008-12-08

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[SOLVED]Yaourt and powerpill

Thanks for the reply Xiong. I tried the change of PacmanBin option to /usr/bin/pacman-color but yaourt refuses to use pacman-color (I have pacman-color installed). I tried setting up a ~/.yaourtrc file, but it also doesn't seem to work either. The problem must be yaourt completely ignoring the two setup files. Do you know if yaourt uses another setting file?

According to the yaourtrc man page, /etc/yaourtrc and /home/user/.yaourtrc are the only two options.  How did you install it?

Also, you might want to move this into another thread, since it's no longer about powerpill.

I "moved" the question here cause I thought it was more appropriate here.

@Xiong: I installed yaourt using pacman, and I think there was an update which got installed while I was doing a full update a couple of days ago. With the yaourtrc, I just edited the one already present in the /etc/folder, just removing the # for commenting. For the ~/.yaourtrc I made to test, I just copied the yaourtrc in /etc/ over and changed the ownership so the non-su user had access. And still no success. Really needing help, cause I don't get what's wrong.:(

Last edited by oddsocks (2008-12-19 12:46:56)

MindTooth

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Registered: 2008-11-11

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Re: [SOLVED]Yaourt and powerpill

Why not try a

$ pacman -Rns yaourt

This way you remove all the config files for yaourt. And you can start over.

Birger

oddsocks

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Re: [SOLVED]Yaourt and powerpill

Why not try a

$ pacman -Rns yaourt

This way you remove all the config files for yaourt. And you can start over.

Birger

Try this and reinstalled yaourt twice, once using tar and makepkg and once using pacman, both times yaourt installed and still completely ignored /etc/yaourtrc . I'm getting tired of this, so I have for now got rid of yaourt, and am completely purging anything remotely yaourt-like, so I can start from scratch.

If anybody has any other suggestions please post it up so I can try this. I really like both tools and its a shame I can't combine the two like others have.

MindTooth

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Re: [SOLVED]Yaourt and powerpill

Can you do this after you have removed yaourt:

$ sudo find / -name *yaourt*

If you find a file called yaourtrc, it is safe to delete.

Birger

oddsocks

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Re: [SOLVED]Yaourt and powerpill

Hey I got it solved! I installed the yaourt-git package from aur rather than the official package and it all works like a charm! I really can't explain why though. So for anyone trying this and have similar problems, installed the git package, not the official.

Rulatir

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Re: [SOLVED]Yaourt and powerpill

For me even yaourt-git doesn't work. The PacmanBin setting is ignored, ignored, ignored.

Xyne

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Re: [SOLVED]Yaourt and powerpill

With the latest version of yaourt from the AUR, my setup works as expected with the following line in /etc/yaourtrc:

PacmanBin /usr/bin/powerpill

If you have "~/.yaourtrc" then that file will take precedence over "/etc/yaourtrc", so make sure that you've configured the right file. Double-check the syntax of the PacmanBin command too. If that still doesn't work, try changing something else to see if other settings are respected.

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skualito

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Registered: 2008-11-19

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Re: [SOLVED]Yaourt and powerpill

I know this thread is bit old but I had the same problem with yaourt ignoring the line PacmanBin, and it apparently was an indentation problem. there was some spaces at the beginning of the line, and after removing them yaourt finally uses powerpill.

xaber

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Re: [SOLVED]Yaourt and powerpill

I use powerpill with yaourt by simply setting up the PACMAN variable in yaourtrc.

Last edited by xaber (2010-12-06 02:43:18)

Xyne

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Re: [SOLVED]Yaourt and powerpill

I use powerpill with yaourt by simply setting up the PACMAN variable in yaourtrc.

You could just use bauerbill instead.

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litemotiv

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Re: [SOLVED]Yaourt and powerpill

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