Hi, Now that I have the system running, I am trying to install the apps I need. I want to Install a trading app and not being successful on Arch, as I believe it requires creating things from scratch. I have installed this on other Arch based systems but they had an interface where one could enable…

AUR is enabled by default in Endeavour, and Yay, an AUR helper is already installed too. yay -S packagename :slight_smile: Edit: There’s an inbuilt screenshot application, just search for it in the menu :slight_smile:

AUR PKGBUILDs That’s why I recommend trying to build at least one package manually, to understand what’s going on, before using an AUR helper like pamac or yay. Thank you so much for your detailed response. I want to learn the basics from the ground up so maybe after a few months i should be …

Well technically it’s @Kresimir who written that great summary… Good video guide though i’m not sure :upside_down_face:

makepkg is a script that creates a foreign (i.e. non-repo) package, which can be installed using pacman -U. Before we can make a package, we need to have both base-devel and git packages installed: sudo pacman -S base-devel git --needed On EndeavourOS, these should already be preinstalled. Depen…

thanks, as I want to learn so I started manually installing whatsapp. So here is what I did, correct me if I am wrong anywhere during this process. First I made a directory called Softwares Added another dir inside softwares called Aur Inside i made a dir called whatsapp In there i did git clone t…

[image] Monty: It did something Some weird stuff yeah :wink: [image] Monty: I cannot see the package file so it did not install in the end. You ran makepkg -S instead of makepkg -s. (uppercase “s” vs lowercase… that will do different things)

[image] moson: You ran makepkg -S instead of makepkg -s. I tried with small “s” and it gave an error: PKGBUILD does not exist. something wrong with the steps i took

Well, you have to be in the folder that contains the PKGBUILD file.

my bad its installing now :slight_smile:

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How to Install Apps from AUR

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keybreak July 30, 2021, 7:34am 2

AUR PKGBUILDs Newbie

The AUR is one of the safest ways to install software, just because it is so transparent. But it does not tolerate just looking up the package in Pamac and clicking on the Build button, or doing yay package_name blindly. It requires that the user knows what’s going on. That’s why I recommend trying to build at least one package manually, to understand what’s going on, before using an AUR helper like pamac or yay. yay has a nice feature that allows you to inspect a PKGBUILD file before installin…

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