Problem installing a package from AUR

I'm not expecting anyone to install this package just to try and answer my question but,,
I have /home on a 10 gig space ext3 and it's only 2% full.
When I try and install doom3-phantasm, the package downloads, builds and when it's time to install a window says not enough space to install.
No way this single game is over 9.5 gigs.
I'm not even seeing where it's trying to install to.
Is this a problem with the package build or am I not seeing something?

I wrote the pkgbuild, so I've got it installed
$ pacman -Ql doom3-phantasm
doom3-phantasm /opt/
doom3-phantasm /opt/doom3/
doom3-phantasm /opt/doom3/phantasm/
doom3-phantasm /opt/doom3/phantasm/config.spec
doom3-phantasm /opt/doom3/phantasm/description.txt
doom3-phantasm /opt/doom3/phantasm/guis/
doom3-phantasm /opt/doom3/phantasm/guis/assets/
doom3-phantasm /opt/doom3/phantasm/guis/assets/splash/
doom3-phantasm /opt/doom3/phantasm/guis/assets/splash/launch.tga
doom3-phantasm /opt/doom3/phantasm/pak999.pk4
doom3-phantasm /opt/doom3/phantasm/phantasma.pk4
doom3-phantasm /usr/
doom3-phantasm /usr/bin/
doom3-phantasm /usr/bin/doom3-phantasm
doom3-phantasm /usr/share/
doom3-phantasm /usr/share/applications/
doom3-phantasm /usr/share/applications/doom3-phantasm.desktop
doom3-phantasm /usr/share/licenses/
doom3-phantasm /usr/share/licenses/doom3-phantasm/
doom3-phantasm /usr/share/licenses/doom3-phantasm/LICENSE
Alternatively, take a look in the "pkg" directory of where you built it, or just examine the .pkg.tar.gz installation file.
What does this show:
df -h
Last edited by brebs (2008-04-04 01:00:53)

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[xxx@xxx pcmanfm-mod]$ yaourt ntfs-config
1 aur/ntfs-config 1.0.1-7 (200)
Enable/disable NTFS write support with a simple click
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Can you check if:
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sudo touch /etc/hal/fdi/policy
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jlcordeiro, same problem and making /etc/hal/fdi directory solve it, thanks
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Updated with the solution to the mentioned problem.
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Xyne wrote:
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install -m644 ./Macbuntu/fonts/mac/*.pfb $pkgdir/usr/share/fonts/Type1
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Hey guys,
I'm getting an error installing the ruby-json AUR package with yaourt. Here's the error https://gist.github.com/EvanPurkhiser/5409110
I checked the directory pkg directory and it has 000 permissions =/ Changing the permissions doesn't seem to fix it as it just resets them back to 000 next time i try to install it
Also, would this be a better to report this in the package comments instead of asking here?
Last edited by EvanPurkhiser (2013-04-18 01:47:22)

Scimmia wrote:Yes, it is better to notify the package maintainer. The problem is that $pkgdir is inaccessable from the build function.
Technically that is not the problem, the problem is that the PKGBUILD was doing bad things in build(), which makepkg will now refuse

[SOLVED] Unable to build packages from AUR (build: command not found)

I recently hosed the filesystem on my arch install of ~8 months. I reinstalled arch today and didn't have many problems since I had backups of many important config files. Anyways, I still need to get a few programs installed from AUR, but nothing I get from AUR will build.
I download the tarball, extract into a folder in /home/myuser/builds and then go into that folder and run makepkg -s (as always)
It checks the files and extracts/downloads them. Then I get the following error message:
==> Starting build()...
/usr/bin/makepkg: line 741: build: command not found
==> ERROR: Build Failed.
Aborting...
I've run abs and I checked out the abs wiki page, I've also installed base-devel. I am not sure what else I need to do, the error message is not specific enough.
The packages I have been trying to install are ttf-ms-fonts 2.0-7, keepass 2.14-2, and I also tried ttf-vista-fonts 1-3. I am fairly certain that it is not a problem with the PKGBUILD files.
Any ideas? Thanks!
Last edited by fatjake (2011-03-08 01:02:59)

cyrus wrote:Have you tried Yaourt?
Nope, haven't tried that, I think mainly because I wanted to learn how to use pacman and how to build using ABS. At this point I think I know how to use pacman/abs, as much as this thread might make it appear that I dont
I'll give it a try, as I frequently install software from AUR. In the past I think I let software from the AUR get outdated, Yaourt (clumsy name) sounds like it would help that a bit. Thanks!
Edit: BTW, I really love Arch. I tried it out on a flash drive about 8 months ago (maybe more), and after about 12 hours I was sold and installed it on the drive that Windows XP previously held. Even considering that I had many problems during the initial install, but they were all problems that caused me to learn and were easy to resolve. Seriously, I have lots of Windows tech experience, but only Arch forced me to learn Linux. I had tried Ubuntu previously but it was such a bore, and the problems tended to be hard to find solutions for. I try to convince my other Linux using friends to try arch, but they see it as too hands-on. I don't see it that way, it is very hands off after initial configuration, and the initial config only takes a week or less on the first try and a day and a half (or so) if you re-install. Having backups of your config files is of course a huge deal, and I am glad I had most of those.
Really, I love Arch Linux, it has taught me so much.
Last edited by fatjake (2011-03-08 04:25:15)

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