Cannot install anything from AUR

Hi everyone, I'm quite new on Arch and I'm having troubles trying to installing software from the AUR. When I try to run 'makepkg' I only get:
==> ERROR: install file (google-chrome-dev.install) does not exist.
(in this case with Chrome, but it happens with everything else, too)
I feel like it's something stupid, but I can't figure out what.
Thank you for the support.

Please (re-)read https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AU … g_packages and remember to mark the thread as solved :-)

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