How do I advise users to install the arch package for Cpdf?
Hello, Someone has kindly provided an Arch package for a piece of software I wrote: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cpdf I had thought it could be installed with pacman -S cpdf, and not being an arch user, that's what I'd put in the documentation. In fact, this is not true, because it's in the AUR. I installed Arch, and yay, and ran: yay -S cpdf which completed successfully. But running 'cpdf' at the command line cannot find the command. And yet, from the comments, other people are using it successfully. Any advice on what I can tell my users? Or a better venue to ask this question? Thanks, John -- John Whitington Director, Coherent Graphics Ltd https://www.coherentpdf.com/
On 17 November 2025 15:07:05 GMT, John Whitington <john@coherentgraphics.co.uk> wrote:
Any advice on what I can tell my users? Or a better venue to ask this question?
There exist a decent number of AUR helpers (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AUR_helpers) like `yay` intended to help users install packages from the AUR. Instead of assuming your users are using any particular one of them, it would be sufficient in my mind to point your users at the package in the AUR and leave it at that: "cpdf can be installed from the AUR (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cpdf) using the normal methods" As a user, that's the information I need. Best Max
Hi John, Max wrote:
"cpdf can be installed from the AUR (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cpdf) using the normal methods"
He's right, an ArchLinux user will know about the AUR, but you can refer them to https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_Repository as a starting point if you wish to make sure. Your use of yay was an https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AUR_helpers -- Cheers, Ralph.
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John Whitington
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Max
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Ralph Corderoy