On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Jelle van der Waa <jelle@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 19/07/12 17:13, Thorsten Jolitz wrote: >> >> Hi List, >> >> when I want to install a new version from an already installed AUR >> package - do I have to remove the old version first, or do I simply >> follow the same steps as if there would be no old version on my machine >> and pacman takes care of everything? >> > Just build a new version of the AUR package and pacman will update it by > installing the new package. > Yes after building from the AUR: pacman -U path/to/package-compressed-xz-file Interestingly I have tigervnc installed, that until recently used to be in AUR - last night when I did pacman -Syu I found this package had moved to community and obligingly updated to the new version without me doing anything special - nice! -- mike c
