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

[Stefan Husmann]

Am 23.07.2010 12:39, schrieb 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.
> 
... and probably never will be, since the chakra people want to write their own package manager.

Regards Stefan