On Fri, 2012-01-27 at 10:47 -0500, Taylor Hedberg wrote: > Either use `makepkg -i` to install automatically after building, or > `pacman -U foo.pkg.tar.xz` to manually install the built package.
FWIW makepkg -i requires sudo. I don't set up sudo for my user. IMO there are good wikis about building packages, anyway, when I started I was thankful that somebody on the list explained me, how to build dummy packages. IMO using ABS is very pleasant. I used it for Qtractor from svn and btw. I excluded the checksum. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Build_System - Ralf
