[SLVD]How do I download a package that's in the AUR but not in pacman?

Question

I feel like I'm asking the newbiest question in this forum, but I'm a little lost. I found google-chrome in the AUR, but when I try to install it with pacman, it tells me it can't find it. I thought that pacman just pulled from the AUR. I guess I don't really understand what the AUR is or how it works.
Last edited by imnotfred (2013-02-19 01:09:35)

Answer 1

ewaller wrote:As a friendly suggestion, do learn how use the AUR by hand.  Helpers are nice, but it is good to understand the basics.
I'd like to echo this. Building packages from AUR is really not difficult, and using a helper really obscures several of the steps. If you build "by hand" you will learn more about tar, and about pacman. The AUR page in the wiki makes all this very clear. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR
(edit) I have never used cower, but for step 1 in headkase's post above mine all you need is this bash function:
get-aur() {
echo 'getting package '$1' from AUR'
wget -q "https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/${1:0:2}/$1/$1.tar.gz"
tar xf "$1.tar.gz"
rm "$1.tar.gz"
cd $1
ls
Last edited by 2ManyDogs (2013-02-19 01:58:33)