[SOLVED] install package from aur via yaourt

Hi,
i installed yaourt and tried to install from the aur.
it keeps asking me to continue bulding and then restart building. it just wont install any packages.
for none-aur packages it works fine btw.
any help?
alex
Last edited by alext (2011-10-11 23:13:53)

me too and it didnt.
[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
==> Enter n° of packages to be installed (ex: 1 2 3 or 1-3)
==> -------------------------------------------------------
==> 1
==> Downloading ntfs-config PKGBUILD from AUR...
x PKGBUILD
x python-2.7.patch
Comment by: loleg on Sat, 25 Jun 2011 10:07:14 +0000
Compiles installs OK using yaourt, however does not work on my up-to-date system with the issue discussed here: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1497399.html
Comment by: jlcordeiro on Mon, 27 Jun 2011 08:56:12 +0000
Can you check if:
sudo mkdir /etc/hal/fdi
sudo touch /etc/hal/fdi/policy
solves the problem?
Comment by: mr430 on Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:56:44 +0000
jlcordeiro, same problem and making /etc/hal/fdi directory solve it, thanks
Comment by: jlcordeiro on Sat, 08 Oct 2011 08:17:08 +0000
Updated with the solution to the mentioned problem.
Comment by: archdria on Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:04:43 +0000
Please, add perl-xml-parser as makedep :)
Comment by: jlcordeiro on Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:36:05 +0000
Done. Thank you :)
First Submitted: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 21:10:44 +0000
ntfs-config 1.0.1-7
( Unsupported package: Potentially dangerous ! )
==> Edit PKGBUILD ? [Y/n] ("A" to abort)
==> ------------------------------------
==> n
==> ntfs-config dependencies:
- python2 (already installed)
- pygtk (already installed)
- udev (already installed)
- ntfs-3g (already installed)
- perl-xml-parser (already installed)
- warning: (building from AUR)
- config (building from AUR)
- file (package found)
- /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, (building from AUR)
- line (building from AUR)
- 82: (building from AUR)
- directive (building from AUR)
- 'Germany' (building from AUR)
- in (building from AUR)
- section (building from AUR)
- 'testing' (building from AUR)
- not (building from AUR)
- recognized. (building from AUR)
- warning: (building from AUR)
- config (building from AUR)
- file (package found)
- /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, (building from AUR)
- line (building from AUR)
- 82: (building from AUR)
- directive (building from AUR)
- 'Germany' (building from AUR)
- in (building from AUR)
- section (building from AUR)
- 'core' (building from AUR)
- not (building from AUR)
- recognized. (building from AUR)
- warning: (building from AUR)
- config (building from AUR)
- file (package found)
- /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, (building from AUR)
- line (building from AUR)
- 82: (building from AUR)
- directive (building from AUR)
- 'Germany' (building from AUR)
- in (building from AUR)
- section (building from AUR)
- 'extra' (building from AUR)
- not (building from AUR)
- recognized. (building from AUR)
- warning: (building from AUR)
- config (building from AUR)
- file (package found)
- /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, (building from AUR)
- line (building from AUR)
- 82: (building from AUR)
- directive (building from AUR)
- 'Germany' (building from AUR)
- in (building from AUR)
- section (building from AUR)
- 'community-testing' (building from AUR)
- not (building from AUR)
- recognized. (building from AUR)
- warning: (building from AUR)
- config (building from AUR)
- file (package found)
- /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, (building from AUR)
- line (building from AUR)
- 82: (building from AUR)
- directive (building from AUR)
- 'Germany' (building from AUR)
- in (building from AUR)
- section (building from AUR)
- 'community' (building from AUR)
- not (building from AUR)
- recognized. (building from AUR)
- warning: (building from AUR)
- config (building from AUR)
- file (package found)
- /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, (building from AUR)
- line (building from AUR)
- 82: (building from AUR)
- directive (building from AUR)
- 'Germany' (building from AUR)
- in (building from AUR)
- section (building from AUR)
- 'multilib' (building from AUR)
- not (building from AUR)
- recognized. (building from AUR)
==> Continue building ntfs-config ? [Y/n]
==> -------------------------------------
==>
==> Building and installing package
==> Install or build missing dependencies for ntfs-config:
Password:
warning: config file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, line 82: directive 'Germany' in section 'testing' not recognized.
warning: config file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, line 82: directive 'Germany' in section 'core' not recognized.
warning: config file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, line 82: directive 'Germany' in section 'extra' not recognized.
warning: config file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, line 82: directive 'Germany' in section 'community-testing' not recognized.
warning: config file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, line 82: directive 'Germany' in section 'community' not recognized.
warning: config file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, line 82: directive 'Germany' in section 'multilib' not recognized.
error: target not found: recognized.
==> Restart building ntfs-config ? [y/N]
==> ------------------------------------
==>
==> Edit PKGBUILD ? [Y/n] ("A" to abort)
==> ------------------------------------
==> n
==> ntfs-config dependencies:
- python2 (already installed)
- pygtk (already installed)
- udev (already installed)
- ntfs-3g (already installed)
- perl-xml-parser (already installed)
- warning: (building from AUR)
- config (building from AUR)
- file (package found)
- /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, (building from AUR)
- line (building from AUR)
- 82: (building from AUR)
- directive (building from AUR)
- 'Germany' (building from AUR)
- in (building from AUR)
- section (building from AUR)
- 'testing' (building from AUR)
- not (building from AUR)
- recognized. (building from AUR)
- warning: (building from AUR)
- config (building from AUR)
- file (package found)
- /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, (building from AUR)
- line (building from AUR)
- 82: (building from AUR)
- directive (building from AUR)
- 'Germany' (building from AUR)
- in (building from AUR)
- section (building from AUR)
- 'core' (building from AUR)
- not (building from AUR)
- recognized. (building from AUR)
- warning: (building from AUR)
- config (building from AUR)
- file (package found)
- /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, (building from AUR)
- line (building from AUR)
- 82: (building from AUR)
- directive (building from AUR)
- 'Germany' (building from AUR)
- in (building from AUR)
- section (building from AUR)
- 'extra' (building from AUR)
- not (building from AUR)
- recognized. (building from AUR)
- warning: (building from AUR)
- config (building from AUR)
- file (package found)
- /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, (building from AUR)
- line (building from AUR)
- 82: (building from AUR)
- directive (building from AUR)
- 'Germany' (building from AUR)
- in (building from AUR)
- section (building from AUR)
- 'community-testing' (building from AUR)
- not (building from AUR)
- recognized. (building from AUR)
- warning: (building from AUR)
- config (building from AUR)
- file (package found)
- /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, (building from AUR)
- line (building from AUR)
- 82: (building from AUR)
- directive (building from AUR)
- 'Germany' (building from AUR)
- in (building from AUR)
- section (building from AUR)
- 'community' (building from AUR)
- not (building from AUR)
- recognized. (building from AUR)
- warning: (building from AUR)
- config (building from AUR)
- file (package found)
- /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, (building from AUR)
- line (building from AUR)
- 82: (building from AUR)
- directive (building from AUR)
- 'Germany' (building from AUR)
- in (building from AUR)
- section (building from AUR)
- 'multilib' (building from AUR)
- not (building from AUR)
- recognized. (building from AUR)
==> Continue building ntfs-config ? [Y/n]
==> -------------------------------------
==>
==> Building and installing package
==> Install or build missing dependencies for ntfs-config:
warning: config file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, line 82: directive 'Germany' in section 'testing' not recognized.
warning: config file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, line 82: directive 'Germany' in section 'core' not recognized.
warning: config file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, line 82: directive 'Germany' in section 'extra' not recognized.
warning: config file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, line 82: directive 'Germany' in section 'community-testing' not recognized.
warning: config file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, line 82: directive 'Germany' in section 'community' not recognized.
warning: config file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, line 82: directive 'Germany' in section 'multilib' not recognized.
error: target not found: recognized.
==> Restart building ntfs-config ? [y/N]
==> ------------------------------------
==>
==> WARNING: Following packages have not been installed:
ntfs-config
Edit: now ive just seen that i forgot about the warnings. i am not sure about what they mean and how to fix it.
Last edited by alext (2011-10-11 22:16:58)

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I use yaourt to install packages from the AUR but I'm having an issue with android-sdk.
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However, I do have sun's jre and jdk installed (I was having applet issues with openjdk) and it detects this when it actually starts installing it.
But it just reinstalls the package and quits without installing the android sdk. If I run yaourt again, the same thing happens.
Does anyone have an idea of what the problem might be?
I could download the tar.gz from google but I'd rather keep everything handled by arch package management.

Is that a show stopper for yaourt? I use aurbuild and did that install the other night. It tripped over the java runtime and pitched a warning, but the build worked and it installed.
I could download the tar.gz from google but I'd rather keep everything handled by arch package management.
Even if you hand build the AUR in a directory of your choice, the resultant package is still integrated into your Arch system using the -U option of pacman. Regadrless of the front end (Yaourt, aurbuild, or roll-your-own), pacman tracks the package as 'Foreign'. FYI.

Package from AUR failed to install after doing many steps, how to rm?

How can I see what files have been left on my hard drive after a package failed to install. I can't pacman -Rsu the package because it didnt install, but now i got some other packages that i don't need then. and probably some other stuff while the package was being extracted..
How can i prevent from leaving a messy trail?

Yeah gen2ly, i was using yaourt to get a package from AUR.
I was able to uninstall the extra packages that were uninstalled, but is it possible that when the PKGBUILD failed that it left some random files somewhere? That's what I trully want to know. The other dependancies i have already removed.
Hey thanks for the info on unzip, Runiq! unzip works miracles!!!! I installed it, and now the front end "File Roller" AKA "Archive Manager" in Gnome can suddenly handle .zip files! It's awesome! no need for p7zip or xarchiver.
Every newbie or windows transferee should know about it!
But anyways, is it possible the failed PKGBUILD left files somewhere?

[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)

[yaourt] update only packages from aur

I just switched from my own aur_update script to yaourt, because it handles dependencies.. But how to only update packages from aur?
Last edited by lessthanjake (2010-01-15 09:37:35)

Ape wrote:
Xyne wrote:
Can you do something like this (assuming yaourt supports pacman's "--needed" flag):
yaourt -S --needed $(pacman -Qqm)
If not, you can try bauerbill which does (or at least should) recognize the "--needed" flag.
That just tries to reinstall (and rebuild as we are talking about AUR) all the AUR packages that are installed. Even the ones that doesn't need any updates.
Xyne wrote:(assuming yaourt supports pacman's "--needed" flag)
Obviously it doesn't. You're welcome to try bauerbill, which should do what you want using the code above.

[SOLVED] Building VCS packages from AUR fails

Hello,
Whenever I try to build a git or svn package from AUR, build fails with the error in a clean chroot enviroment:
==> ERROR: Unknown download protocol: svn
Aborting...
When the build starts, makepkg actually downloads source files properly. Any clues?
Last edited by yuan_modu (2015-04-02 16:31:03)

Trilby wrote:How many packages has this happened with? Can you give an example of one that produces this error? If the download proceeds when the build starts, it sounds like the PKGBUILD is outdated and is manually grabbing the source in the build function (in pacman<4.0 style).
I was building https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/uefi-shell-svn: a popular and up-to-date PKGBUILD.
Indeed I didn't merge the conf files of clean chroot. There was a makepkg.conf.pacnew, the lacking part in my old makepkg.conf was:
VCSCLIENTS=('bzr::bzr'
'git::git'
'hg::mercurial'
'svn::subversion')
and some small changes. Everything works fine now. Was my bad. Sorry for incovenience and thanks for your help.
Last edited by yuan_modu (2015-04-02 13:08:21)

Virtual memory exhausted when compiling packages from AUR

Recently I've seen this error more and more often. When I tried compiling some packages from AUR, I ended up getting "virtual memory exhausted" error. The first time it happened with clementine-git, then android-studio. Can I do something about it?

I am also facing the same problem. I am trying to install a package, and the installations aborts saying 'virtual memory exhausted'. The RAM is 2 GB and i have alloted 2 GB as swap. Things i have tried so far
-install using yaourt
-install using makepkg.
-change TMPDIR to HDD.
Even when i tried it without any window manager to start, limiting the RAM usage, the problem still persists. The only way is to allot an extra swap space, but that would mean that i will have to delete a partition, which is not a feasible solution. Is there anything else one could do. ?
if it helps,
ulimit -a
core file size (blocks, -c) 0
data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited
scheduling priority (-e) 20
file size (blocks, -f) unlimited
pending signals (-i) 16033
max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 64
max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited
open files (-n) 1024
pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8
POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200
real-time priority (-r) 0
stack size (kbytes, -s) 8192
cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes (-u) 16033
virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited
file locks (-x) unlimited

Any point to install OSS from AUR?

I have my sound working great with ALSA, I'm just curious if there's any benefit to installing OSS from AUR (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7134) ??

I use the package, though not from the AUR. I downloaded mine directly from 4Front Tech's website: http://www.opensound.com/
I went this route because they provide the specific driver for my m-audio soundcard. In this thread: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=44072 NoOneImportant noted that the sound is better than vanilla alsa.

How to install packages from local folder

Hi all,
I have downloaded all arch linux packages from the following URLs:
ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/core/os/i686/
ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/extra/os/i686/
ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/community/os/i686/
and then have saved them to an external hard disk. Then I have attached that external hard disk to my system and packages are available in following folders:
/mnt/external_hd/Arch_Linux/Core-OS/
/mnt/external_hd/Arch_Linux/Extra-OS-1/
/mnt/external_hd/Arch_Linux/Extra-OS-2/
/mnt/external_hd/Arch_Linux/Community-OS-1/
/mnt/external_hd/Arch_Linux/Community-OS-2/
/mnt/external_hd/Arch_Linux/Community-OS-3/
Now I want to install some or all packages from these folder with the help of pacman command. I am seeing that package corresponding to wvdial command is available in the /mnt/external_hd/Arch_Linux/Extra-OS-1/ folder. But how to use pacman command so that I can install wvdial package from that folder?
In addition to this if I want to install ALL Extra Packages available in the folders /mnt/external_hd/Arch_Linux/Extra-OS-1/ and /mnt/external_hd/Arch_Linux/Extra-OS-2/ then how to execute the pacman command?
Please send me step by step instructions so that I shall be able to install some or all downloaded packages.
I shall remain thankful for this forever.
Best Regards ...
Pankaj Kumar

Hi fukawi2,
Thanks for reply and searching for my username on google. It is true that I am a freelance s/w developer but I am not installing Arch Linux for any client. I am installing it due to some other reasons. In fact I started working on Red Hat and then on Fedora when I was a student of bachelor degree course in computer applications. Then later I searched open suse and started using it. I am using open suse from its 10.1 version. However the recent version of this distribution has become much resource consuming. So I am in the need of a light weight linux distribution. And I encountered Arch Linux. Then I purchased its installation disk from an online shop and installed it on my system. But only text mode is working at this moment. Since I want to use X window and so I started to follow the syntax of pacman command. But it is connecting to internet. Since my internet connection is slow (average speed of 10kbps) and so I requested the same online shop to download all packages from Arch Linux repository and send them to me. Therefore now I am having all those packages in my local external hard disk drive in the folder mentioned in my first post. Now I want to install packages from these folder. And so in order to get help I have come to this forum.
I have also followed the steps given on the pages https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … l_commands and https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … repository. But when I am trying to install a particular package using the following command:
pacman -U wvdial
then it is asking for a dependency. I know that the dependent package in my local folder but why it is not being automatically taken by pacman command? Can you please explain it.
That is why I am asking help only for customization and usages of pacman in order to install packages from local folder. But each member in this forum is only referring to long written manuals and not giving me exact solution which I think will involve four/five steps.
Best Regards ...
Pankaj Kumar

[SOLVED] install package from aur via yaourt

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