[SOLVED] Building from source?

Mzg · 2009-09-06 17:57:03

I'm new - quite new to Linux, totally new to Arch - thus this newbie question.

I can't seem to understand how to properly compile from source in Arch.

And before you ask, I have read the Wiki. A lot.

The way I understand it, normally one would use pacman and rely on it to find, download and install the package. I have not yet got a proper internet connection set up, and will therefore have to download the package(s) from my Win XP computer I'm sitting at.

I want to download wvdial - for getting dialup up and running. wvdial seems to depend on ppp, wvstreams and xplc, so I have to download those as well.

After searching, I found them all, but only the source code, as gzipped tarballs.

I understood that one was then supposed to use makepkg to make a package from the source code, and then install the resulting package using pacman.

Sounds OK, but it looks like I need a so-called PKGBUILD file for each package, a script used by makepkg to build the package correctly.

Did those tarballs contain any PKBUILD files? No. There were makefiles, but no such thing as a PKGBUILD file.

What am I supposed to do, then? Did I get the wrong tarballs?

I got wvdial from this page: http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/wvdial/ which took me here: http://alumnit.ca/wiki/index.php?page=WvDial which again lead me here: http://alumnit.ca/wiki/index.php?page=DownloadReleases

This last page also included wvstreams.

For ppp: http://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/i686/ppp/

For xplc: http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/xplc/

Last edited by Mzg (2009-09-06 18:13:28)

Barrucadu · 2009-09-06 18:05:02

ppp is in core, and wvstreams and xplc are in extra. No need to compile. Just download the packages and transfer them to your Arch system, then install with pacman -U

wonder · 2009-09-06 18:09:16

the binary package have to be downloaded from a mirror. here is a list with them: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mirrors

note: http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/wvdial
looking at the link you can find out where to look. is in extra repository, i686
http://linkmirror/extra/os/i686/

Mzg · 2009-09-06 18:13:31

Aah, that makes lots of sense! Thank you guys - extremely fast reply You saved my night I'll mark the thread as solved.

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