On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 4:55 PM, Bhushan Shah wrote:

On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 9:23 PM, Marcel Kleinfeller wrote:

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I'm facing some problems using the AUR with many helper programs (cower, packer etc). That might be due to the latest upgrade of the pacman database to version 4.2.

Is there a simple way to use AUR?

Thanks in advance!

Rebuild your AUR manager

I'm pretty sure both of the named helpers were written in scripted languages. cheers! mar77i

On Thu, 1 Jan 2015 16:58:01 +0100 Martti Kühne wrote:

I'm pretty sure both of the named helpers were written in scripted languages.

Not intending to contradict, but rebuilding cower worked for me. I used a clean tarball and did makepackage --skipinteg (see the discussion under cower in the AUR) Geoff

On 01/01/2015 10:27 AM, Troy Engel wrote:

On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Geoff wrote:

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Not intending to contradict, but rebuilding cower worked for me. I used a clean tarball and did makepackage --skipinteg (see the discussion under cower in the AUR)

Same here on multiple systems. The pacman upgrade replaced libalpm.so from .8 to .9, you'll probably need to run 'pacman-db-upgrade', then rebuild/reinstall cower (another thread also mentioned package-query, which backs yaourt). If you're using pacaur there's an update for that as well which adds the prevent-as-root check to align with the new pacman 4.2 restriction.

hth, -te

The procedure described here, https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/package-query/ worked for package -query and pkgbrowser.

yaourt users will need to rebuild package-query as well, even though yaourt itself is a shell wrapper. It's actually only package-query that needs to be rebuilt, for the same reason. Also, note that there's an aur-general mailing list, which is more appropriate for this discussion. --Oliver Temlin