On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 1:42 AM, Christian <christian08@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > So my question is if I get a such package, may I just extract it, unpack the > data.tar.gz and copy the libraries into /usr/lib? > For example, I now need to use pygame1.8 and there is 1.9 in the arch > repository. > What do you think? You really want to avoid having random untracked files lying around in your system; you want to create packages with them so they are tracked by pacman. A good solution for your problem might be the following: Grab an older revision of the PKGBUILD, change pkgname to something like python-pygame-1.8 and build it. To find the revision you need to fetch, consult the svn log [1]. In this case, for example, you'd want r43882. To checkout that revision use: svn co -r43882 svn://archlinux.org/packages/python-pygame/trunk python-pygame-1.8 ---- [1] http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/packages/python-pygame/trunk/?op=log&isdir=1&;
