Re: [arch-general] First Time Using AUR
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Carlos Mennens carlosw...@gmail.comwrote: I am getting ready to use my newly built Arch Linux system for the 1st time and use AUR and read the Wiki but I have a question that I am not clear on: Next choose an appropriate build directory. A build directory is simply a directory where the package will be made or built and can be any directory. Examples of commonly used directories are: ~/builds Now when I create the ~/builds directory, does it matter if I do this in a regular user's home directory or in 'roots'? It is not very clear and I don't want to break anything or improperly build a package from AUR. I dont know if your using an aur helper or using makepkg alone, but i would use ~/builds in a users' directory. running makepkg as root is bad practice.
Re: [arch-general] VirtualBox
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Carlos Mennens carlosw...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Lukas Fleischer archli...@cryptocrack.de wrote: You need to install sdl if you want to use the VirtualBox GUI, have a look at the optional deps. I installed that and yes I want to use the GUI but its dependency after dependency and it doesn't seem to end... Is there no way just to install are required dependencies? Just for VirtualBox I have installed: sudo pacman -S libxcursor sudo pacman -S sdl sudo pacman -S fontconfig And now it's still complaining about libXi.so.6...Is there no way just to resolve everything or locate all required dependencies? Try using an aur helper - http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Aur_helpers The big ones are clyde, packer, yaourt. they ought to help you with the dependency issues.
Re: [arch-general] gsfonts - package is updated?
2010/3/25 Ng Oon-Ee ngoo...@gmail.com Repository : extra Name : gsfonts Version: 1.0.7pre44-1 Installed : 8.11-5 URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gs-fonts/ I'm assuming this is a simple mess upstream on non-consecutive version numbers? The linked sourceforge page still lists 8.11 as the stable version, while the one currently in extra is listed as 'pre' (and doesn't seem available in the sourceforge page? I assumed the same, though I cannot confirm its true. Important note for people running it to this, because of the version change pacman will dump out on Syu claiming local version is newer - this needs to be installed manually with a standard -S. Just an FYI.
