dirvish

cyclohexan · 2009-07-22 18:43:14

Hi,

I'm new to arch and just installed it the first time.
I want to use dirvish, but it does not seem to be in the sync db.

pacman -Ss dirvish does not return anything, and pacman -S dirvish
returns:

dirvish package not found, searching for group...
error: 'dirvish': not found in sync db

Is there any possibility to install dirvish using pacman, or do I have to compile it from source?

SamC · 2009-07-22 19:06:51

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=13057

You should learn how to use the AUR, and perhaps use more descriptive titles.

cyclohexan · 2009-07-23 07:50:27

Thank you. Dirvish is now installed and running fine.

Anyway, in my opinion the AUR building procedure is a bit complicated compared to gentoo's portage or *BSD's ports. The need to download something manually using a browser reminds me a bit to windows. And for dirvish I had to do all that 4 times: 3 perl modules were required as dependencies, which were all only available via AUR.

tomk · 2009-07-23 08:07:39

Thanks for your opinion. If you find it all too cumbersome, you could always use gentoo or *BSD instead.

However, I expect someone will be along shortly to suggest one of the many AUR helper apps that are available (in the AUR, of course ).

hbekel · 2009-07-23 09:04:58

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Yaourt

Yaourt is a community-contributed wrapper for pacman which adds seamless access to the AUR, allowing and automating package compilation and installation from your choice of the 11,000+ PKGBUILDs in the AUR.

sand_man · 2009-07-23 09:32:10

cyclohexan wrote:

Thank you. Dirvish is now installed and running fine.
Anyway, in my opinion the AUR building procedure is a bit complicated compared to gentoo's portage or *BSD's ports. The need to download something manually using a browser reminds me a bit to windows. And for dirvish I had to do all that 4 times: 3 perl modules were required as dependencies, which were all only available via AUR.

It's not Arch's responsibility to make AUR apps easily accessible. Otherwise the functionality would be part of pacman.

cyclohexan · 2009-07-23 11:16:42

hbekel wrote:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Yaourt
Yaourt is a community-contributed wrapper for pacman which adds seamless access to the AUR, allowing and automating package compilation and installation from your choice of the 11,000+ PKGBUILDs in the AUR.

Thanks. Seems to be a great tool. I will try that out.

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dirvish

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#3 2009-07-23 07:50:27

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#4 2009-07-23 08:07:39

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#5 2009-07-23 09:04:58

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#6 2009-07-23 09:32:10

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#7 2009-07-23 11:16:42

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