On Thursday 19 Jul 2012 18:44:13 Thorsten Jolitz wrote: > Jonathan Dlouhy <dlouhy55@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On 07/19/2012 12:18 PM, Jayesh Badwaik wrote: > >> On Thursday 19 Jul 2012 17:13:44 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? > >>> > >>> > >> You can just install the new version. Pacman takes care of it. But > >> even better would be to use something like packer/yaourt. > > > > packer -Syu --auronly > > Packer must be new somehow, did not hear about it before (only about > yaourt). So this would render my git-clone of the AUR repo superfluous, > because it makes AUR packages as easily installable and updatable like > packages form the official repos? > > To answer your question - Yes. But you have to be careful. First do your normal system upgrade through pacman pacman -Syu and after that update AUR packages. Do not install normal packages through packer or yaourt, there have been some problems last time I was reading about it. -- Jayesh Badwaik stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
