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makepkg is a script to automate the building of packages on Arch Linux

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I need your help! I'm trying to install pgAdmin4 desktop version on my Arch system. I am getting libfakeroot internal error: payload not recognized! while building package for pgadmin4-server(which is ...
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Is it possible to use resources exchanged with the BitTorrent protocol in pacman's PKGBUILDs?
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I created a custom repository on my manjaro machine (to make a custom Manjaro ISO) with adding: [manjaro-mate-aur-packages] SigLevel = Never Server = https://github.com/FreaxMATE/manjaro-mate-aur-...
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I'm trying to hack a MSYS package, so I found https://www.msys2.org/wiki/Creating-Packages/ - as an example: git clone "https://github.com/msys2/MSYS2-packages" cd MSYS2-packages/flex ...
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I am using Arch. Last night I started installing a package whose repo size is ~2GB, but my internet connection is very slow, so I let it run overnight. It finished the download, but timed out at the ...
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IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate is not available as an Arch Linux core package, and has a built-in upgrade mechanism. For these reasons it would be convenient to install it into my home directory, letting it ...
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I was building font-manager package from AUR on my Arch system. It is throwing a warning while the process : ==> WARNING: Package contains reference to $srcdir usr/lib/font-manager/libfontmanager.so....
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Follow this link, I build Slack in Arch by makepkg -sri. Unfortunately, it won't start and I decided to remove it. Issue: When I use pacman -Qm slack it returns error: package 'slack' was not found, ...
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From Arch Wiki: Packages in Arch Linux are built using the makepkg utility. When makepkg is run, it searches for a PKGBUILD file in the current directory and follows the instructions therein to ...
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When I run makepkg -cf, I get an error: ==> ERROR: PKGBUILD does not exist. But if I run makepkg -p PKGBUILD.asc it works. Can someone explain to me someone why the first doesn't work?
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The latest release of Brackets (v1.13) is not available in the AUR. So I downloaded the official .deb package from the official site. Now how do I go about installing it ? Do I have to write a ...
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I know the latest Neofetch is available in the official arch repository but I want to build it from the git clone. Since it doesn't have the PKGBUILD so makepkg is out of question and the global step ...
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I have a tree which I need to install with a foder named /usr. This folder exists in src folder. Now I need to write a function in PKGBUILD that installs to the fakeroot before the *.pkg.tar.gz is ...
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In Manjaro is there any functional difference between using makepkg -s followed by then running pacman -U <package_name>.tar.xz instead of just using makepkg -si ? I've seen them both used in ...
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I'm trying to build an Arch Linux package for some icon theme, so I used this PKGBUILD file : pkgname=masalla pkgver=1.1 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="A flat design icon theme by Hayder Majid" arch=('any') url=...
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