[aur-general] reinstalling properly an AUR app

[Arno Gaboury]

On 06/13/2012 07:02 PM, Marcin 'sirmacik' Karpezo wrote:
> Arno Gaboury dixit (2012-06-13, 18:51):
>
>> Hello,
> Hi!
>
>> I am trying to reinstall an AUR app, Texstudio. This app was working
>> perfectly before I did yesterday a huge upgrade.
>> I understand I must rebuilt the app with the new libpoppler-qt. I built
>> it fine with "makepkg -i", but can't install as I get errors about files
>> already in my filesystem (in fact all Texstudio files).
>> When I installed first time Texstudio, I built it from source and I did
>> not a clean install, as pacman -Q doesn't return the app in the list.
>>
>> How can I deal with this issue? Is there any way to force the install ?
>> Should I uninstall first Texstudio, and how? Can I just deleted all
>> existing files (mainly /usr/bin/texstudio, usr/share/texstudio directory
>> and /usr/share/applications/texstudio.desktop)? I tried by renaming them
>> to .bck, but there is still a problem with the desktop file.
>>
>>
>> TY for any help.
> There are few way to go. The following seems to be the easiest for me:
>
> Just build your package with makepkg (which seems to be done already if
> makepkg tells you that files are already in your system). You should be
> able to find it in directory you were building it (unless you set it
> differently via /etc/makepkg.conf).
>
> Than just use pacman to install package and force it to replace files
> that are already in the system by adding the following options:
>
> -Uf
>
> And than full name and position of your package. You can find their
> descriptions in pacman manual[1].
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> [1] - http://www.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman.8.html#_upgrade_options_apply_to_em_s_em_and_em_u_em_a_id_uo_a
>
>
TY for your answer. It is what I did.
Now why do I need to sudo to start texstudio??