thanx for the video. i learn so much from you. you got me into the wonderful world of WM's...i don't really use AUR but that being said you teach me something new all the time that i didn't know. thanx again and i look forward to your future videos.
Thanks for this, just moved to Arch a week ago and got used to using Yay. I then came across a package which didn't work due to an upstream update throwing version numbers and checksums out of sync so had to adjust the pkgbuild myself. Managed to get everything working :)
I always manage manually the AUR. Is not a hassle. At 5 AUR packages is not a problem. Back in the days it was a hassle before dpkg and apt to install packages. You had to resolve manually the dependencies. When you had dependency tree or worse, dependency circle. That was fraking nighmare. But i love those days and nights. Compiling from source an entire OS. Somehow like gentoo but more complicated😂😂
What I found is that when I stepped away from Arch to Fedora for a few months earlier this year, I could actually do this with pretty minimal intervention... not everything worked, but a good amount of things did (again, with some intervention).
Yep, they do. Usually in a cache directory. Which is why you should run your aur helper with the Scc flags to remove the cache directory when it's no longer needed
Great infotmative video👍 thank you Would you please consider doing a technical comparison of Slackware & Arch not which is better but nuts & bolts comparison.
The down side is that a lot of the packages that should be in the main Arch repository aren't there, but you have to get them from the AUR, which is a more convoluted install. If you want to use xviewer as your photo viewer, AUR. Stellarium: every main repository but Arch, where it's AUR. Same with Simple Screen Recorder.
i'm just getting into linux world and this was great, you are a good instructor, thank you. will watch your other videos to pick up more knowledge. only thing I didn't quite understand is "keeping a directory of aur packages separate" so when the time comes to update we just use git pull... do we create a directory or is one created automatically when we install a package, any package for the first time?
It's ironic that with all the hype over the AUR (and I am guilty of hyping it as well) that I don't install many AUR packages. I would say I have less than 5 installed, and none of them are "must have" packages. But they are nice to have.
Curious as to whether I could access aur and install package into openSUSE. Would package get installed into directories that openSUSE would expect? It would be even better if openSUSE zypper, package manager, could do the install so as to add package to zypper database installed list for future manipulation.
There is a project called "Lure" that is attempting to create a universal version of the AUR. It doesn't have many packages though, because not a lot is using it, but the idea is sound.
I know this is 8 month old, but did anything change with this comands? Cause when I do mkpg -s it tells me I have no permission to write to $BUILDDIR and if I do it with sudo it tells me running makepkg as root is not allowed as it can cause permanent, catasthrophic damage to your system...
nevermind I found out why it was gaving me errors, is because I git cloned with sudo, so the files where only accessible to the sudo user and since root is not allowed to run the makepkg it did was denying me the permissions
My lack of knowledge is how to edit the PKGBUILD file when it has issues. For example: I need to use Pulse Secure for connecting to work. The website in the pkgbuild to download the RPM file is down, so YAY fails after going through it's process of finding this file and that license file and this other step 2, 3, 4... when it cannot download the RPM file listed in the source line. I figure no issue, I can get the file from work as we have a software site that has the DEB, EXE, and RPM files available for download. I get the file, put in the folder that get clone created, and change the pkgbuild file to use the file in the folder, not to go download it. Fails sha256sum, OK put in sha256sum=("SKIP") fail OK, create a sha256sum hash for the file I downloaded and put it in the pkgbuild fail Alright, strip the pkgbuild file down the bare minimum as shown for what is needed on the wiki fail Google, what untold number of videos, read article after article; nobody seems to go over how to do this. It shouldn't be rocket science to not go download the file when I have the file.
Quick question for you @DistroTube. Between the Moonlander and the Ergodox EZ, which has the thumb cluster closer to the main part of the keyboard? I have small hands and found the thumb cluster on the Kenisis Advantage360 to be too far away.
The Moonlander and ErgoDox are the same as far as key layout and distance. I swap between the two all the time and there's no difference, other than the ErgoDox has 6 keys on each thumb cluster instead of 4 like the Moonlander..
i would add to DT here, and say the shift key is a normal on the moonlander, this can be a problem for the first few mouths if you don't got small hands
thanx for the video. i learn so much from you. you got me into the wonderful world of WM's...i don't really use AUR but that being said you teach me something new all the time that i didn't know. thanx again and i look forward to your future videos.
Thanks for this, just moved to Arch a week ago and got used to using Yay. I then came across a package which didn't work due to an upstream update throwing version numbers and checksums out of sync so had to adjust the pkgbuild myself. Managed to get everything working :)
I always manage manually the AUR. Is not a hassle. At 5 AUR packages is not a problem. Back in the days it was a hassle before dpkg and apt to install packages. You had to resolve manually the dependencies. When you had dependency tree or worse, dependency circle. That was fraking nighmare. But i love those days and nights. Compiling from source an entire OS. Somehow like gentoo but more complicated😂😂
So you chose violence today.
What I found is that when I stepped away from Arch to Fedora for a few months earlier this year, I could actually do this with pretty minimal intervention... not everything worked, but a good amount of things did (again, with some intervention).
Anybody know how I can customise the browsers homepage like that? At 4:21
Check out the Tabliss plugin for Chrome-based and Firefox-based browsers. I did a video about it awhile back.
You **should** change it to "how to install AUR packages the **recommended** way".
Man, I really could have used this video like a year ago.
Hope people who are new to Arch stumble upon this.
It's a well described process in the Archwiki, arch newcomers should probably just read that and have the habit to do so, although videos don't hurt
i did! after only one reinstall from breaking things :)
That was the way that I've actually used when I first installed Arch on my old Aspire One laptop and didn't know anything about AUR helpers
what is going on in the background of this video at around 6:23 did a p*rn studio moving next to DT??
Nicely done! 😊
What do you run in your studio & what do you run at home?
Thanks
when using yay or another AUR helper do the PKGBUILDs still live on your system? if so, where can they be located?
A year later and not a single person answered lol
Yep, they do. Usually in a cache directory. Which is why you should run your aur helper with the Scc flags to remove the cache directory when it's no longer needed
Great infotmative video👍 thank you
Would you please consider doing a technical comparison of Slackware & Arch not which is better but nuts & bolts comparison.
The down side is that a lot of the packages that should be in the main Arch repository aren't there, but you have to get them from the AUR, which is a more convoluted install.
If you want to use xviewer as your photo viewer, AUR. Stellarium: every main repository but Arch, where it's AUR. Same with Simple Screen Recorder.
i'm just getting into linux world and this was great, you are a good instructor, thank you. will watch your other videos to pick up more knowledge. only thing I didn't quite understand is "keeping a directory of aur packages separate" so when the time comes to update we just use git pull... do we create a directory or is one created automatically when we install a package, any package for the first time?
Oh my god thank you so much for this video
Muito útil. Instalei o Arch recentemente e já consegui seguir o tutorial
Well, I used to do that too. Once Yaourt was there, it was the first program I installed after a fresh install.
It's ironic that with all the hype over the AUR (and I am guilty of hyping it as well) that I don't install many AUR packages. I would say I have less than 5 installed, and none of them are "must have" packages. But they are nice to have.
I hear you. I'm always recommending SBo to anyone that uses Slackware, or who's coming to it new, yet I don't use it at all.
Curious as to whether I could access aur and install package into openSUSE. Would package get installed into directories that openSUSE would expect? It would be even better if openSUSE zypper, package manager, could do the install so as to add package to zypper database installed list for future manipulation.
There is a project called "Lure" that is attempting to create a universal version of the AUR. It doesn't have many packages though, because not a lot is using it, but the idea is sound.
hey dt, what about hyprland?
I know this is 8 month old, but did anything change with this comands? Cause when I do mkpg -s it tells me I have no permission to write to $BUILDDIR and if I do it with sudo it tells me running makepkg as root is not allowed as it can cause permanent, catasthrophic damage to your system...
and btw the directory where I'm trying to install it is in home/user/packagedir, cause is where it cloned in a default cmd when I cloned it
nevermind I found out why it was gaving me errors, is because I git cloned with sudo, so the files where only accessible to the sudo user and since root is not allowed to run the makepkg it did was denying me the permissions
Thanks for this video. I would like to install the AUR package "epson-driver-escpr." But i have an error message.
how to manually install an aur package which required signature verification?
you can't say "I use Arch btw" until you have installed Arch the Arch way and installed all your AUR packages this way.
I use arch btw
My lack of knowledge is how to edit the PKGBUILD file when it has issues. For example:
I need to use Pulse Secure for connecting to work. The website in the pkgbuild to download the RPM file is down, so YAY fails after going through it's process of finding this file and that license file and this other step 2, 3, 4... when it cannot download the RPM file listed in the source line. I figure no issue, I can get the file from work as we have a software site that has the DEB, EXE, and RPM files available for download.
I get the file, put in the folder that get clone created, and change the pkgbuild file to use the file in the folder, not to go download it.
Fails sha256sum, OK put in sha256sum=("SKIP") fail
OK, create a sha256sum hash for the file I downloaded and put it in the pkgbuild fail
Alright, strip the pkgbuild file down the bare minimum as shown for what is needed on the wiki fail
Google, what untold number of videos, read article after article; nobody seems to go over how to do this. It shouldn't be rocket science to not go download the file when I have the file.
Quick question for you @DistroTube. Between the Moonlander and the Ergodox EZ, which has the thumb cluster closer to the main part of the keyboard? I have small hands and found the thumb cluster on the Kenisis Advantage360 to be too far away.
The Moonlander and ErgoDox are the same as far as key layout and distance. I swap between the two all the time and there's no difference, other than the ErgoDox has 6 keys on each thumb cluster instead of 4 like the Moonlander..
i would add to DT here, and say the shift key is a normal on the moonlander, this can be a problem for the first few mouths if you don't got small hands
Phew... you seducing me to use arch linux again... 😑🙄
I prefer this method because I want to limit myself to use aur that much
Hey DT 👋🏻
I'm using endeavour OS with bspwm 🎉
This method is bloated.. let's write source code and compile on air xD
Paru
😅 👌👍
Not the easiest way to brag about having 24-thread CPU :D
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