[arch-general] PKGBUILD help

Tim Stella denstark at gmail.com
Fri Jan 27 10:50:26 EST 2012


Seems to me like you'd like an aur tool like 'yaourt' -- then it'd be as simple
as 'yaourt -S joe'. Their homepage has installation instructions you can copy 
and paste as well.

Tim

On 01/27/12 at 03:40pm, Peter G Nikolic 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  .
> 
> I am also still unable to get anywhere near that close with google earth   
> just piles of complaints  (all 32 but complaints but the system is 64 bit i 
> have the .deb 64 bit down  to no avail  .
> 
> Is there any clear concise documentation for the PKGBUILD / makepkg system   
> most times so far with arch i have fund what i needed but this time   :-(
> 
> 
> Pete .
> 
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