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Pamac fails to install split AUR packages #192
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pamac uses yaourt directly and only sends cmds to yaourt and displays the results in a terminal. |
Does it call yaourt right away, or does it try with pacman first? |
AUR is deactivated by default. You have to activate that support. |
However it has some issues with this particular package:
It errors out not finding vivacious-colors, which all points to pkgbase. |
Do you ask for the target package or the base package?
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@philmmanjaro Just FYI..this is a known issue in yaourt. Sorry I don't have time to grab the link but you can find it on their github issues list. |
I see the problem, it's because all pkgnames are different from the pkgbase. |
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I file this issue following a discussion started on the forum:
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/aur-installing-error/13139
The topic is about Pamac failing to install the cinnamon-sound-effects package from AUR. A workaround is to use directly yaourt, since it doesn't have a problem installing this package.
I found this topic when having myself an issue while trying to install vivacious-colors-icon-theme, with the same workaround working. But knowing Pamac (might) use yaourt for AUR, if found this weird, so i dug a bit.
Long story short:
The following is a copy of post 8, in which i describe my findings:
I checked a bit the history log from pamac to see how it installs AUR packages, and instead of yaourt commands, i saw commands like
so my guess is that it builds the package first, then pass it to pacman.
I went and tried to build such package as described in Arch wiki. I tried with vivacious-colors-icon-theme, because that's the one i was interested in.
This downloads a corrupted archive. You need to download the base package instead.
This builds all packages from the package base. In this case:
Then you can install your package with pacman.
If that helps.
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