[arch-general] PKGBUILD help

[Peter G Nikolic]

On Friday 27 Jan 2012 17:47:26 Thanasis Georgiou wrote:
> 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.

Hi thanks that was the one i wanted 

> 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 :)

Did but could not find much   never mind   solved now thanks  
now just to olve the google earth one ..

Pete 

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