On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 10:09 AM Raj Kombiyil via aur-general < aur-general@archlinux.org> wrote:
Dear all, Greetings! Just finished my maiden install of arch-linux on my laptop, with my share of headache. But things are running alright now, I guess. It's kind of difficult to find packages in one place -- e.g.; I could install gedit easily (via pacman), but couldn't find the LaTeX plugin. Searching, I see it is in AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gedit-latex I see that in the comments section, there's some issue. The package is updated in 2017 last. I know all these will be voluntary work and maybe people don't need this plugin much. For me, I could compile LaTeX source on the fly, using gedit with this plugin. What should I do to install this package? I was hoping just to install and move on with my work. I am into science computing and don't have the knowledge base to make this work/make packages etc. I read good things about Arch, so I picked it. Apologies, I am thankful for the great work all the developers/volunteers do, but at this moment I just would like something that works. Thank you for your time and any help would be greatly appreciated. Raj
It looks like that AUR package is up to date, but that the latest release of the project does not work properly on newer versions of Gedit. But good news, it looks like the plugin is working on a new release at the moment: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gedit-latex/-/commit/0c8a2b949739024844dd8c26... So hopefully there will be a release that fixes the bugs soon. Once there is an official release, you can flag the AUR package as out of date, and hopefully the packager will have the time and interest to update the AUR package to the new version. However, it looks like the project has changed their build system, so the AUR packager will have to do more than just bump the version number. If you want to learn about it in the meantime, Arch Linux packaging is not as complicated as it might seem from the outside. You can look at the PKGBUILDs from AUR packages as examples, and read about packaging on the wiki here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Creating_packages If you comment on the AUR page saying that a new release of the plugin is in development, I'm sure other users would be interested to know, and perhaps other users of the package may have the time and motivation to help package the new release, or discuss what might be involved. -Chris