[Solved] Removing package installed by AUR

I installed digikam and would like to remove it.
[burt@bobland ~]$ sudo pacman -Qs digikam
local/digikam-beta 1.0.0-7
Digital photo management application for kde
[burt@bobland ~]$ sudo pacman -Qi digikam
error: package "digikam" not found
Because the package is not found, I can't remove it. But the files are still there.
[burt@bobland ~]$ sudo pacman -R digikam
digikam not found, searching for group...
error: 'digikam': not found in local db
[burt@bobland ~]$ which digikam
/usr/bin/digikam
Last edited by bobland (2009-10-11 23:04:45)

Read your system's output more carefully. Your pacman -Qs command above shows that the package is called digikam-beta.

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I need to install a package from AUR but even I read the guide (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_User_Guidelines) I can't make it clear enough on how to do it so please correct me if there's anything wrong.
a. first of all, I need to download and install wget because I'm at CLI ready to configure X but I need the latest test drivers that fully support my videocard.
b. mkdir ~/myuser/build && cd ~/myuser/build
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Last edited by martin77 (2010-03-29 01:38:25)

guys,
did you ever saw that Heineken TV Ad where a woman shows her dresser-room to her fellow friends and they start screaming like (women does) crazy, and while they still screaming a lot they start to hear a somewhat identical scream from other part of the house that in fact shows up as the boyfriend/husband of the first lady showing his buddys his special fridge-room filled with green bottles?
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https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16394
And, please use "code" tags...

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Thats what I figured
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[SOLVED] Removing E17 desktop from AUR script

Hello,
I went about today installing Arch with much success and was trying to install the E17 desktop which isn't working; anytime I type startx I get:
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Last edited by NexusX (2011-01-14 22:34:12)

Awebb wrote:What's the objection against the package in the repos? Why all the hassle with a non-pacman install?
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What is you favourite program to update packages installed by aur?

I used aurbuild, but I saw there are many... So what is your pacman for AUR? And overall why?

i just scripted the wget / tar / makepkg / pacman -U process with prompts between each step. it also starts with a lynx aur google search to get the package name.
script:
#!/bin/bash
# Aurget V 0.1
# pbrisbin 2009
# This script searches google for Arch Linux AUR packages
# The user selects from the results and the packages is
# optionally extracted, built, and installed
# Packages can be saved or discarded
# Usage: aurget [packagename]
# ToDo: track version info to see if your due for an update
# (basically, become yaourt!)
## User Config
# just some directories
WD="/tmp/aurget" # place to do some work
PD="$HOME/Packages" # place to store built packages
SAFE="$PD/aurget_dump" # place to dump data if something happens
## Program below
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[ -d $WD ] || (mkdir $WD && chmod 700 $WD)
[ -d $SAFE ] || mkdir -p $SAFE
LNG=$(echo $LANG | cut -d '_' -f 1)
CHARSET=$(echo $LANG | cut -d '.' -f 2)
# minimal error checking
if [ -z $1 ]; then
echo "Please specify a search term. Ex. ./aurget cairo"
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fi
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lynx -accept_all_cookies -dump -hiddenlinks=ignore -nonumbers -assume_charset="$CHARSET" -display_charset="$CHARSET" "http://www.google.com/search?hl=${LNG}&q=${1}+site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Faur.archlinux.org%2F&btnG=Search" | grep AUR\ $en$ > $WD/results
if [ ! -s $WD/results ]; then
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exit 0
fi
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clear
echo ""
echo "Results found:"
echo ""
cat -b $WD/results | awk '{ print " ", $1, "-", $6 }'
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echo "Please enter the number to download: (or q to quit)"
echo ""
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read NUM
if [ "$NUM" = "q" ]; then
echo " Quitting..."
exit 0
fi
PACK=$(cat -b $WD/results | grep -P "$NUM\t" | awk '{ print $6 }')
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clear
echo ""
echo "Downloading $PACK to $WD..."
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echo ""
echo " Extract the files? (y/n)"
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y)
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n)
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echo ""
echo " Files extracted."
echo ""
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y)
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n)
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clear
echo ""
echo " Package built."
echo ""
echo " Install the package? (y/n)"
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y)
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y)
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Last edited by brisbin33 (2009-04-02 17:19:44)

[solved] How to install the AUR

I apologise if this question is answered somewhere, but I looked at the wiki pages and I am still confused.
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Last edited by cprofitt (2015-02-07 18:28:10)

cprofitt:
After you get your grip on using AUR via makepkg, you may take a look at yaourt (@ArchWiki). It allows you to automatically rebuild packages when an update is available. It also helps a lot when building a package that has tons of dependencies coming from AUR.
Note hower that I've put an emphasize "after". While yaourt is a great tool, using it without understanding "the basic way" first is not the wisest idea. Keep ewaller's words in mind: AUR is just a place where people may put a file that basically contains a set of commands to execute. It's just like finding information on a forum on how to compile a package. You wouldn't just blindly copy-paste commands from a forum to your terminal, would you?
Last edited by mpan (2015-02-07 06:15:07)

[solved] remove packages from a txt file list

as the subject header says, I want to run "pacman -R" and have it read a list of packages from a text file.
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Last edited by orphius (2013-07-09 08:11:53)

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[SOLVED] yaourt. packages taken from aur that are from core or extra

Hi! i have a couple of days ago strange yaourt-pacman behaviour, i mean, when i do -Syu --aur, i get strange
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resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
Targets: screen-4.0.3-5
Total Download Size: 0.45 MB
Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
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amidi-plug: (local=0.7-3 aur=0.5-1)
amule-cvs: up to date
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archmage: up to date
aria: (local=1.0.0-4 aur=1.0.0_1.fc8-1)
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aurvote: up to date
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bitefusion: up to date
bkhive2: up to date
briquolo: up to date
tuxcmd: not found on AUR
tuxcube: up to date
uif2iso: up to date
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units: (local=1.87-1 aur=1.85-1)
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uqm: (local=0.6.2-2 aur=0.5.0-1)
my /etc/pacman.d/core for example:
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# United States
Server = ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/core/os/i686
Server = ftp://ftp.nethat.com/pub/linux/archlinux/core/os/i686
Server = ftp://locke.suu.edu/linux/dist/archlinux/core/os/i686
Server = ftp://mirrors.unixheads.org/archlinux/core/os/i686
Server = ftp://ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu/pub/linux/distributions/archlinux/core/o$
Server = ftp://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/ArchLinux/core/os/i686
Server = http://mirrors.easynews.com/linux/archlinux/core/os/i686
Server = ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/archlinux/core/os/i686
# South America
# - Brazil
Server = http://archlinux.c3sl.ufpr.br/core/os/i686
Last edited by leo2501 (2008-03-09 11:16:17)

What are the versions of your pacman and yaourt?
There are some updates to all the pacman, yaourt and AUR web pages,
so can you try this:
1. upgrade pacman itself first
2. upgrade yaourt itself, then
3. and last, try full system upgrade.
These errors seem familiar, but I have no idea how it disappeared.

[SOLVED] yaourt how to update aur packages

Hi!
I got a quick question. I thought that yaourt is able to update old packages installed from Aur automatically.
So for example I type as usually yaourt -Syu --aur but I noticed it doesn't show AUR packages I can update. Only from core/extra/community
For example I just typed:
yaourt yaourt
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and see that I can update yaourt. I have other packages installed from AUR, how do I know that a newer version is available without checking it manually?
edit:
so I am happy to mark it as solved. It wasn't a bug, but it is a way how yaourt works.
yaourt -Syu --aur shows packages from core/extra/community.
If I press Y (to install them). It shows a list again with the information how much to download and install and then after pressing "No" to install them, yaourt continues to check AUR packages in this case.
Julien MISCHKOWITZ, the developer said he could change the behavior
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Last edited by ngsupb (2009-08-21 13:15:09)

shining wrote:yaourt has a bug tracker : http://bugs.archlinux.fr/index/proj3?or … &sort=desc
Thank you shining. I have opened a ticket there. Lets wait, I hope they can help!

Yaourt: Problems installing generated AUR packages [SOLVED]

Hello.
I'm using Archlinux and the system works flawessly. Sadly, there's a problem when trying to install AUR packages.
The following happens installing any AUR package I tried lately.
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==> [v]iew package contents [c]heck package with namcap
==> ----------------------------------------------
==>y
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cp: cannot stat `./wicked-git-20090112-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz': No such file or directory
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Any idea about how to fix it? I tried using both an user with sudo and root, same problem.
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Last edited by timofonic (2009-07-14 19:52:53)

lilsirecho wrote:
Perhaps the method to use is given by the man pacman files.
pacman -U (.pkg.tar.gz package ID found in the directory generating the package)
For example: ...pacman -U /var/local/kernel26-2.6.30-5-x86-64.pkg.tar.gz......since the pkg generated is in that directory for this theoretical case.
Any locally generated package is loaded with ...pacman -U....
What do you mean? The package doesn't exist, I double checked it.
Maybe I need to check where yaourt writes it. Any suggestion about what util to use for that?
EDIT: I used "lsof" command and found the file is there, but yaourt can't locate it and deletes the directory after
$ ls /tmp/yaourt-tmp-root/aur-wicked-git/wicked-git/w*
/tmp/yaourt-tmp-root/aur-wicked-git/wicked-git/wicked-git-20090708-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
/tmp/yaourt-tmp-root/aur-wicked-git/wicked-git/wicked-git-20090709-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
Please, could anyone help me to solve this problem?
Last edited by timofonic (2009-07-09 22:08:47)

[Solved] List AUR packages installed and only AUR packages.

Here's a good one. Thought this would be easy but thought it over and then looked around a bit and haven't found anything. There's might just be an easy way to do this that will make me *bonk* my head in the morning but I haven't found it yet. I'm looking to be able to just list the packages I have installed from AUR and not any that I have gotten from the official repos. I've checked out some utilities in AUR (like AURcheck) but as far as I can tell they just look for AUR updates. Anyone know of a way to do this?
Last edited by Gen2ly (2009-10-30 14:32:22)

I just got to reinstalling and this was a lifesaver - it worked great. Thank for the help, brisbin, ghost, Allan...
@Ghost, I would have used packup but I had a couple downgraded packages and I wanted to be able to troubleshoot it.
The tip about the grep -v doing 'shortnameplus' was a good tip, Profjim. I hadn't read this last post before and during the reinstall I was a bit surprised nvidia wasn't installed so... all is good now.
I created a script to be able to create the backup list and restores from it simliar to ghosts and am able to run it in cron job. Probably not a big deal, but... phhht. Here it is for anyone that can use it:
#!/bin/bash
# pacbac - Create and restore from list all installed packages
# Package list locations (official and local)
pkglsoff=/opt/backup/pc-emach/arch-pkglist-official
pkglsloc=/opt/backup/pc-emach/arch-pkglist-local
# Exclude packages
excldoff=()
excldloc=()
# Use filename as program name
prog=${0##*/}
# Text color variables
bldblu='\e[1;34m' # blue
bldred='\e[1;31m' # red
bldwht='\e[1;37m' # white
txtcyn='\e[0;36m' # cyan
txtund=$(tput sgr 0 1) # underline
txtrst='\e[0m' # text reset
info=${bldwht}*${txtrst}
pass=${bldblu}*${txtrst}
warn=${bldred}!${txtrst}
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if [[ "$1" == 'r' ]] && [[ -z $(pacman -Qs yaourt) ]]; then
echo ""
echo -e "$warn $prog requires ${txtund}}Yaourt${txtrst} to be installed."
echo -e " ${txtcyn}http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Yaourt${txtrst}"
echo ""
exit
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echo -e "$info Creating list of local (includes AUR) packages installed."
pacman -Qqm > "$pkglsloc"
echo -e "$pass Official package list saved to ${txtund}"$pkglsoff"${txtrst}"
echo -e "$pass Local package list saved to ${txtund}"$pkglsloc"${txtrst}" ;;
r ) # Update repository database, then restore packages from list
echo -e "$info Installing packages from lists"
sudo pacman -Sy
# use -f to overwrite conflicting files
sudo pacman -S --needed $(cat "$pkglsoff")
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yaourt -S $(cat "$pkglsloc" | grep -vx "$(pacman -Qqm)") ;;
* ) echo -e " pacbac b - build installed packages list. (dir:${txtund}"${pkglsoff%/*}"${txtrst})"
echo -e " pacbac r - restore installed packages from package list." ;;
esac
Last edited by Gen2ly (2009-10-31 14:16:55)

[SOLVED] Rebuilding all installed AUR packages

Hi guys,
before starting to hack some dirty script on my own i would like to know if there's already any program/script which looks up the list of packages, which were installed from aur: pacman -Qqm, and rebuilds/exports them?
the reason why i ask: i have several machines running on arch64 and i need 50+ built packages to serve them in the intranet.
best regards
Last edited by broken pipe (2011-12-26 20:25:12)

thx karol, i'm already using pacserve to avoid downloading packages for each machine in the network.
what i want to do is: read the output of 'pacman -Qqm' and rebuild + export the pkgs
i did a little bash script to achieve this. but i have to admit i'm not good at scripting but i gave my best improvements are welcomed
#/bin/bash
pkglist=/tmp/pkglist
builddir=/dev/shm/$(date +%F)/
exportdir=~/aurpkgbuilds
# Create builddir
if [ ! -d "$builddir" ];then mkdir $builddir
fi
# Create exportdir
if [ ! -d "$exportdir" ];then mkdir $exportdir
fi
# Getting the list of pkgs which were installed from AUR
pacman -Qqm > $pkglist
# Edit the list?
read -p "Would you like to edit the list? (y/N) " edit
if test "$edit" = "y"; then
$EDITOR $pkglist
fi
for i in $(cat $pkglist); do
cd $builddir
wget http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/${i}/${i}.tar.gz
tar xvfz ${i}.tar.gz
cd ${i}
makepkg -f
mv *.pkg.tar.xz "$exportdir"
done
# Clean up
read -p "Would you like to remove the builddir? (y/N) " rmbuilddir
if test "$rmbuilddir" = "y"; then
rm -rf $builddir
fi
exit 0

[SOLVED] can't build an AUR package while installing Arch

So I am nearly there installing Arch for the first time. And I will start with saying that I am really sorry if I missed the answer to my problem but I have had a look around the documentation and the general webz for something regarding this problem and haven't found anything.
I am trying to set my wireless connection up but I apparently need the AUR b43-firmware package installed for my Broadcom BCM4322 [14e4:432b] to be functional.
So I follow the documentation to install an AUR package, but I am stuck at the building stage as makepkg does not allow me to build if I am root, and I am root by default while installing/configuring Arch...
What should I do to build and install that package so I have a wireless connection later on?
Cheers
Last edited by chtfn (2015-03-21 14:11:12)

I am connected to the wired network, and I followed the steps to make it persistent for later, but I just wanted to go through the wireless stuff too to be extra sure I will be able to connect to the Internet later on. As it is the first time I install Arch, I am trying to be extra cautious, and having that security would make me feel more comfortable! Plus, I am keen to learn how to do those things from the command line.
Isn't there a way to switch to a normal user just for a command, and automatically reverting back to root when that action is finished? Just like sudo but the other way round

[Solved] Removing package installed by AUR

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