I've personally found yaourt kind of sketchy, but perhaps others' milage varies. -AT On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 7:01 AM, Edgar Kalkowski <eMail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Or you install yaourt (via makepkg) which can transparently install from aur, too. > > > > > On Mittwoch, 22. April 2009, 13:59:45 Andrei Thorp wrote: >> 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 >> > >> > >> > >> >
