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gamgam

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Registered: 2009-06-06

Posts: 15

Using AUR (en) packages [SOLVED]

Hey guys,
I was wondering if someone could help me understand how to use the AUR (en) repos.

Ive had a read of the wiki (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR) and have done the following:

uncommenting this line in their pacman.conf file (enabled by default):
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

If /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist does not exist then it should be created and contain the following:
[community]
Server = ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/community/os/i686/

When i try to find the package using pacman -S, i cannot locate it
(at the moment im tryn to install playonlinux)

Can anybody help me pinpoint exactly what i am doing wrong?

Thanks in advance!

Last edited by gamgam (2009-07-28 05:43:53)

SpeedVin

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From: Poland

Registered: 2009-04-29

Posts: 955

Re: Using AUR (en) packages [SOLVED]

Hey guys,
I was wondering if someone could help me understand how to use the AUR (en) repos.

Ive had a read of the wiki (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR) and have done the following:

uncommenting this line in their pacman.conf file (enabled by default):
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

If /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist does not exist then it should be created and contain the following:
[community]
Server = ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/community/os/i686/

When i try to find the package using pacman -S, i cannot locate it
(at the moment im tryn to install playonlinux)

Can anybody help me pinpoint exactly what i am doing wrong?

Thanks in advance!

Hello
If you want use AUR ypu have to build packages by some programs like ABS or YAOURT (Pakages from AUR is not provided as binary).
Community is another repo.
You add to your mirrolist offical ftp mirror from Archlinux that's not good if you will upgrade your system you will download packages maximum 50 Kib/s try mirror from your Country.
Thanks

Last edited by SpeedVin (2009-07-28 05:23:54)

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majiq

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Registered: 2009-03-06

Posts: 259

Re: Using AUR (en) packages [SOLVED]

You cannot use pacman to install packages from the AUR unsupported section. In fact, looking back on it, that wiki page may not be as optimally worded as possible. The reason it starts talking about ABS is because there is a subset of the AUR that is in community. That part you can access via ABS, but any package in unsupported, you have to manually download the tarball, extract it, cd into it, run makepkg, and then run pacman -U on the .pkg.tar.gz. If you cannot download it via pacman, that's probably the route for you.

gamgam

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Registered: 2009-06-06

Posts: 15

Re: Using AUR (en) packages [SOLVED]

Hey guys, thanks for the quick response
Just as you typed it i finally found
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Yaourt

, thanks for the help everyone it all worked out good