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Installing AUR packages

nabbisen on November 08, 2018

Summary Arch Linux is one of the most popular Linux distributions. It's supported by AUR, "A"rch Linux "U"ser "R"epository, which is a v...

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Alvan Rahimli • Jul 18 '20

Thank you veery much. Damn I love Arch <3 <3

nabbisen • Jul 26 '20

Hello, Alvan. Thank you for your cheering commenting 😉

DanielTso74 • Oct 30 '22

its 2022 and it still works great. AWESOME!! thank you.

nabbisen • Nov 3 '22

Ha ha, yeah, 4 years ago and now. I am really surprised.
Many thanks to Arch Linux project and community for their efforts, stability and advancement.

Ajinkya Borade • Nov 10 '20 • Edited

I recently shifted to Linux. Manjaro Gnome.

When I did git clone and tried to install aur repo. I Get following error:

wluma-1.2.1.tar.gz ... FAILED (unknown public key 011FDC52DA839335)
==> ERROR: One or more PGP signatures could not be verified!

gpg --generate-key

I have below keys, not sure how to use them

> ls -la ~/.gnupg
total 32
drwx------  5 ajinkya ajinkya 4096 Nov 10 09:02 .
drwx------ 37 ajinkya ajinkya 4096 Nov 10 09:00 ..
drwx------  2 ajinkya ajinkya 4096 Nov  9 21:50 crls.d
drwx------  2 ajinkya ajinkya 4096 Nov  9 22:26 openpgp-revocs.d
drwx------  2 ajinkya ajinkya 4096 Nov  9 22:26 private-keys-v1.d
-rw-r--r--  1 ajinkya ajinkya 1981 Nov  9 22:26 pubring.kbx
-rw-------  1 ajinkya ajinkya   32 Nov  8 15:13 pubring.kbx~
-rw-------  1 ajinkya ajinkya 1280 Nov  9 22:26 trustdb.gpg

So I did this

gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys 011FDC52DA839335

Now i get below error:

meson.build:1:0: ERROR: Unable to detect linker for compiler "cc -Wl,--version -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fno-plt -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2"
stdout: 
stderr: cc: error: unrecognized command line option '-fno-plt'


A full log can be found at /home/ajinkya/aur/wluma/src/wluma-1.2.1/build/meson-logs/meson-log.txt
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...

nabbisen • Nov 11 '20 • Edited

Ajinkya,
Hello. Thank you for your comments.
Well, although I know little about your errors, your problem seems to have been already not because of gpg.
How about this approach? I'm happy if this could be some of your help:
stackoverflow.com/questions/465047...

tux0r • Nov 8 '18

And if you want to get rid of systemd, the Arch fork Artix might be for you.

nabbisen • Nov 8 '18 • Edited

Thank you very much, tux0r!
I have never heard of Artix.
It seems interesting especially to build an Arch server!

Although I don't have a strong opinion about systemd (because of shallow understanding), I remember I enjoyed using OpenRC when I used Alpine Linux.

By the way, I found the Debian fork Devuan without systemd as well as Artix when I studied Artix some time ago.
You and the web world are my big teachers : )

tux0r • Nov 8 '18

OpenRC is nice. (In fact, I currently have a toy Gentoo machine which is the main platform for OpenRC.) I mostly jumped off the Linux ship before systemd, and all that I can read about it is how many problems it makes to have a monolithic can-do-all software running as PID 1. I don't think that I'd want to make my own experiences with it.

You and the web world are my big teachers :)

My mother said that I would be a horrible teacher. I'm a cynic.

nabbisen • Nov 11 '18 • Edited

Hi, tux0r!
Thank you about the detail.

I have studied about systemd, SysVinit and upstart for a couple of days.
And I understood your saying, at least a part of it:

how many problems it makes to have a monolithic can-do-all software running as PID 1

What I understand is that it is a trade off between speed and stability.
And I seemed to understand why, in my past experiment, Ubuntu executed something faster than Alpine Linux or OpenBSD.

My mother said that I would be a horrible teacher. I'm a cynic.

To be frank, I couldn't find what to say, because I definitely know about you by far less than your mother 🤣

tux0r • Nov 8 '18

I have never heard of Artix.

I found (...) Artix when I studied Artix some time ago.

(... wait, what?)

nabbisen • Nov 8 '18 • Edited

Sorry for a wrong expression.
I tried to mean "dozens of minutes ago" using "some time ago" 😅
It's true I haven't known Artix since you taught me.

彦绪杨 • Aug 7 '21 • Edited

Thank you very much for you Post!!
But when i at step2 ,I got an error
ERROR: Running makepkg as root is not allowed as it can cause permanent,
catastrophic damage to your system.
so i create a new user to use makepkg
but i got another error
==> ERROR: Cannot find the fakeroot binary.

I'm not an English speaker, so the words I write may be difficult to understand. I'm very sorry about that

nabbisen • Aug 10 '21 • Edited

Hello, @billyang
Thank you for your comments :)

ERROR: Running makepkg as root is not allowed as it can cause permanent,
catastrophic damage to your system.

I wonder if you used sudo. It is not recommended.
If you did as superuser, just type "makepkg ..." instead. (Well, starting with $ means "do as a user".)

ERROR: Cannot find the fakeroot binary.

This may be another issue.
It seems a part of base-devel lacks.
It is possibly solved by installing fakerook (and other core packages if required):

$ sudo pacman -S base-devel
:: There are 26 members in group base-devel:
:: Repository system
   1) autoconf  2) automake  3) binutils  4) bison  5) esysusers  6) etmpfiles  7) fakeroot
   8) file  9) findutils  10) flex  11) gawk  12) gcc  13) gettext  14) grep  15) groff
   16) gzip  17) libtool  18) m4  19) make  20) pacman  21) patch  22) pkgconf  23) sed
   24) sudo  25) texinfo  26) which

Enter a selection (default=all): 7

Tim Bryan • Jun 29 '20 • Edited

Thanks for this!

I've been distro hopping and found myself back on Manjaro and couldn't for the life of me remember how to do this! My brain was stuck on dpkg for some reason 😑

Could you elaborate on the -si argument(s) on what it does and why it's needed? 🙂

nabbisen • Jul 7 '20

Hi Tim. Thank you for your commenting 🙂 Sorry for my late reply.

Haha. My case is similiar to yours: Manjaro -> Debian ->Artix (Arch-based). I have recently got familiar with pacman commands after all.

Could you elaborate on the -si argument(s) on what it does and why it's needed? 🙂

-s is shorthand for --syncdeps that means "To build the package and install needed dependencies".
-i is for --install.

-si means to build the package and then install it.
When what you want is just to build the package and not to install it, makepkg -s is useful.
When you have finished building the package, all you have to do is executing makepkg -i to install it.

The documentations might help you: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Makepkg .