Basically, you click "download Tarball", unpack the tarball, cd into the directory and do "makepkg -s" This will download the sources, build the package as per PKGBUILD script, and gives you the resulting Arch package. pacman -U pkg_file will install it. Cheers! -AT On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:11 PM, David Rosenstrauch <darose@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, April 22, 2009 12:06 am, David C. Rankin wrote: >> David Rosenstrauch wrote: >>> David C. Rankin wrote: >>>> Listmates, >>>> >>>> Looking for my favorite swiss army knife for pdf files (pdftk) I >>>> was unable to >>>> locate it with pacman -Ss pdftk and no luck. >>> >>> It's in the AUR: >>> >>> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O=0&L=0&C=0&K=pdftk&SeB=nd&PP=25 >>> >>> i.e., you have to build it yourself. >>> >>> DR >>> >> >> Great, >> >> I'm still reading through the AUR info to see if there are any tricks >> beyond >> the normal: >> >> if ! autoconf; then >> ./configure --help >> (read, make educated guesses) >> ./configure --your guesses >> make >> make install >> else >> go rtfm again to remember autoconf >> ./configure --help >> (read, make educated guesses) >> ./configure --your guesses >> make >> make install >> fi ;-) > > ??? > > How about "makepkg". > > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ABS#The_build_function.2C_the_ABS_way > > DR > > >
