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#1 2011-05-14 18:50:36
- rockhazard
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[SOLVED] Installing Powerpill
Before anyone asks, I have in fact read the Powerpill wiki page -- and searched the forum. The wiki doesn't say how to execute/install the contents of the provided tarball, which suggests that it is very simple. I looked inside it, and it looks like a script, but setting its execution bit doesn't seem to do anything. I'm missing something obvious, of course, but damned if I know what it is. It was so easy a year ago; all I had to do was use pacman to install it.
/awaits wisdom of the sages...
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#2 2011-05-14 18:54:33
- yktula
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Re: [SOLVED] Installing Powerpill
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#3 2011-05-14 18:55:15
- ethail
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Re: [SOLVED] Installing Powerpill
Did you know that Powerpill is not being developed and it does not work with pacman anymore?
Wiki page on powerpill, first paragraph:
Warning: Powerpill development has been officially discontinued: its latest version does not work with pacman>=3.5.
Related to your question, unpack the tarball, and makepkg. That will build the package guided by the PKGBUILD file
Best Testing Repo Warning: [testing] means it can eat you hamster, catch fire and you should keep it away from children. And I'm serious here, it's not an April 1st joke.
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#4 2011-05-14 18:55:31
- Inxsible
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Re: [SOLVED] Installing Powerpill
If you searched the forums, you would find these threads :
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=115951
and subsequently this : https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=115660&p=1
EDIT : too late !!
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There's no such thing as a stupid question, but there sure are a lot of inquisitive idiots !
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#5 2011-05-14 19:07:34
- rockhazard
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Re: [SOLVED] Installing Powerpill
Actually I did see the warning. I have an older vbox Arch guest I pulled out of cold storage that doesn't have powerpill that I wanted to use it with, because I loved that tool. As for the rest, my searchfu is obviously weak: I put in "installing powerpill" and the mentioned threads did not come up for me, but thanks for the heads-up. Ah...makepkg; that makes sense -- I was trying make install or some such...
/bows head in shame...
But thanks for the very quick responses!
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