Hi There,
I was trying to install miraclecast to use with my Samsung TV. Not only it did not work but now I cannot remove the package.
*I know the snapshot I took says Rns instead or Rsn, I ty it and still did not work:
What’s the output of:
yay -Q | grep miraclecast
Also try:
yay -R miraclecast-git
pacman
is for use with the official repos, not the Arch User Repository (AUR), which is where miraclecast-git is found.
miraclecast-git
is an AUR package, pacman
won’t work. Should remove it like this: yay -R miraclecast-git
EDIT: Beat me to it, @Bink
yay to install, but pacman will remove:
sudo pacman -R miraclecast-git 23:31:44
checking dependencies...
Package (1) Old Version Net Change
miraclecast-git 339.937747f-1 -0.40 MiB
Total Removed Size: 0.40 MiB
:: Do you want to remove these packages? [Y/n]
:: Processing package changes...
(1/1) removing miraclecast-git [---------------------------------------------] 100%
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/2) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
(2/2) Reloading system bus configuration...
wow.Thanks for the quick reply!
So, there was not output for yay- Q, and error:target not found for the second one.
Does that mean I did not install it correctly? I went in to the package and used makepkg -si
Yeah, it wouldn’t appear to be installed.
You might also just clean things up, as a matter of housekeeping? This’ll remove orphan packages (dependencies no longer associated with any other packages).
yay -Yc
Ok, so I definitely did not install it using yay.
I’m gonna have to do some reading on how to do that.
Thanks a lot!
Not sure how you installed it, then. Because pacman cannot install from the AUR.
❯ sudo pacman -S miraclecast-git
[sudo] password for wombat:
error: target not found: miraclecast-git
❯
AUR packages can only be installed via AUR helpers… yay
, paru
, pikaur
, and the like.
EDIT: Sorry, I missed this…
@NewUser, without using an AUR helper, this is the correct way to install it. You’d need to read any output though, to confirm it installed without issue (eg: required depenencies not installed).
If using yay
, it should be as simple as running:
yay -S miraclecast-git
Being a -git
package though, it’ll be pulling from the latest commit, regardless of stability. It’s not unusual for -git
packages to have a build or runtime issue.
This topic was automatically closed 2 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.