[arch-general] New to Arch with problems with AUR

[Nathan Wayde]

On 23/07/10 11:36, Florian Pritz wrote:
> On 23.07.2010 12:27, Mario Daniel Carugno wrote:
>> First i present myself. My name is Mario and i was reading this list
>> for a few weeks.
>> I'm coming from Debian, [...]
>
> Welcome :)
>
>> For instance, i couldn't compile shaman. Actually i can't compile aqpm
>> or libaqpm, wich is a dependency of shaman, and it isn't in the pacman
>> repositories.
>
> Try to find out what's wrong (Maybe it's as easy as changing pkgver
> because upstream already fixed the problem in a newer release. Always
> check that first!) and if possible fix it yourself. If you can't, try
> asking on IRC or write a comment on the package's page.
>
>> Is it always so common to have problems in building AUR packages ?
>
> There is software that's buggy and troublesome, but also one that just
> works™. At least those packages I use work most of the time.
>
in the shaman case. IIRC shaman et al. is a dead horse, and shaman2 and 
friends are not ready yet.