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Sova007

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From: Paris

Registered: 2008-10-08

Posts: 8

install tar.gz???

Hello!!!!!!!!!!!
Someone knows how to install files source i saw a package in the aur repositeries for my printer but it's *.tar.gz how could i use it????
Thanks for your concern!!! hope you'll find a solution...not too hard to release...

Last edited by Sova007 (2009-03-05 17:55:10)

Inxsible

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

Posts: 9,183

Re: install tar.gz???

Hello!!!!!!!!!!!
Someone knows how to install files source i saw a package in the aur repositeries for my printer but it's *.tar.gz how could i use it????
Thanks for your concern!!! hope you'll find a solution...not too hard to release...

If its in Aur, there is already a package build for it. You need to install something like yaourt which will allow you to install any and all softwares from the AUR

Last edited by Inxsible (2009-03-05 17:57:21)

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Primoz

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From: Ljubljana-Slovena-EU

Registered: 2009-03-04

Posts: 688

Re: install tar.gz???

It's all in this wiki: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_User_Guidelines
But I get "lost" when it says you have to make the package yourself I thought that why MAKEPKG was.
Anyway I haven't yet try but will.
It's OK that it' in tar.gz you have to transform it to pkg.tar.gz...

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u_no_hu

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Registered: 2008-06-15

Posts: 453

Re: install tar.gz???

untar it... check the PKGBUILD and other files....makepkg -s.... install the package created using pacman -U....

Or you can use helper applications like yaourt.

And read the wiki...everything is in there.......

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Allan

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Registered: 2007-06-09

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Re: install tar.gz???

take the tar.gz from the AUR, extract it, run "makepkg" in that directory and then "pacman -U ???.pkg.tar.gz"

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Primoz

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From: Ljubljana-Slovena-EU

Registered: 2009-03-04

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Re: install tar.gz???

I've just installed my first package from AUR and it's really easy and "cool" to!
I like it.
So Sova007 I guess it's really easy and straight forward.

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