[arch-general] PKGBUILD help

[Thanasis Georgiou]

On 27 January 2012 17:40, Peter G Nikolic <p.nikolic1 at btinternet.com> wrote:
> Hi ..
>
> I am trying to install my favorite editor   joe   now i have the "PKGBUILD"
> file  have  run "makepkg" it has built ok no erors but how the heck do i
> install  it says installed but it has not it has just created the directorys
> in the build dir  but not actually installed it on the system  .

makepkg only creates a package. To install it, run pacman -U
/where/your/pkgbuild/is/packagename-packageversion.pkg.tar.xz.
Or run makepkg -i (or makepkg -si which will install dependencies too).

I am pretty sure the wiki explains PKGBUILDs pretty good, take a look :)

-- 
Thanasis Georgiou