On 09/11/2015 05:05 PM, Eli Schwartz wrote:
On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 4:14 AM, mudongliang <mudongliangabcd@outlook.com> wrote:
Read the relevant docs and ensure you understanging what the process you
are trying to follow is doing.
I think that installing package always needs root privilege by default. So I don't know why this error happens! I remove "sudo" in my command. It is successful now. - mudongliang
yaourt homepage, with examples: https://archlinux.fr/yaourt-en
One of the reasons for yaourt (aside for transparently handling AUR) is that you don't need to use sudo -- yaourt knows when to use sudo, and wraps that too.
Yes , this wrapper is very good and "clever". When I remove the sudo and install softwares, I see in the last steps , it requests me to input my password.
And yaourt doesn't *just* install packages... Which was your problem. yaourt was acting as a wrapper around downloading the AUR PKGBUILD and running makepkg. Which was why you decided to use it. ;)
It is advisable to get familiar with the process of building and installing AUR packages by hand, and only when you are sure of what you are doing, then use a convenience wrapper.
It is essential to understand the internal theory and operate it by hands. Then I will have a deep understanding! Besides, I first use pacman , but there are some softwares in aur which needs yaourt. So I install and use it as the wiki tells me. - mudongliang
-- Eli Schwartz