[arch-general] Anyone building pdftk for Archlinux?

[Edgar Kalkowski]

Or you install yaourt (via makepkg) which can transparently install from aur, too.




On Mittwoch, 22. April 2009, 13:59:45 Andrei Thorp wrote:
> Basically, you click "download Tarball", unpack the tarball, cd into
> the directory and do "makepkg -s"
> 
> This will download the sources, build the package as per PKGBUILD
> script, and gives you the resulting Arch package. pacman -U pkg_file
> will install it.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> -AT
> 
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:11 PM, David Rosenstrauch <darose at darose.net> wrote:
> > On Wed, April 22, 2009 12:06 am, David C. Rankin wrote:
> >> David Rosenstrauch wrote:
> >>> David C. Rankin wrote:
> >>>> Listmates,
> >>>>
> >>>>     Looking for my favorite swiss army knife for pdf files (pdftk) I
> >>>> was unable to
> >>>> locate it with pacman -Ss pdftk and no luck.
> >>>
> >>> It's in the AUR:
> >>>
> >>> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O=0&L=0&C=0&K=pdftk&SeB=nd&PP=25
> >>>
> >>> i.e., you have to build it yourself.
> >>>
> >>> DR
> >>>
> >>
> >> Great,
> >>
> >>       I'm still reading through the AUR info to see if there are any tricks
> >> beyond
> >> the normal:
> >>
> >> if ! autoconf; then
> >>       ./configure --help
> >>       (read, make educated guesses)
> >>       ./configure --your guesses
> >>       make
> >>       make install
> >> else
> >>       go rtfm again to remember autoconf
> >>       ./configure --help
> >>       (read, make educated guesses)
> >>       ./configure --your guesses
> >>       make
> >>       make install
> >> fi ;-)
> >
> > ???
> >
> > How about "makepkg".
> >
> > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ABS#The_build_function.2C_the_ABS_way
> >
> > DR
> >
> >
> >
> 
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