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.
==> Continue installing wicked-git? [Y/n]
==> [v]iew package contents [c]heck package with namcap
==> ----------------------------------------------
==>y
loading package data...
error: './wicked-git-20090112-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz': cannot open package file
==> WARNING: Your package is saved in /tmp/yaourt-tmp-timofonic/wicked-git-20090112-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
cp: cannot stat `./wicked-git-20090112-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz': No such file or directory
==> WARNING: Unable to copy wicked-git-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz to /tmp/yaourt-tmp-timofonic/ directory
Any idea about how to fix it? I tried using both an user with sudo and root, same problem.
Regards.
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)

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