Issues with installing AttractMode from the AUR

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This is the install instructions for Linux:

Compiling Attract-Mode
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Build instructions are set out by operating system below:

Linux, FreeBSD:
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These instructions assume that you have the GNU C/C++ compilers and basic
build utilities (make, pkg-config, ar) on your system.  This means the
"build-essential" and "pkg-config" packages on Debian or Ubuntu-based
distributions.  Other distributions should have similar packages available.

1. Install the following *development* libraries on your system:

   * Required:
      - SFML SDK version 2.x (<http://sfml-dev.org>)
      - OpenAL
      - Zlib
      - FreeType 2
      - The following FFmpeg libraries (required for videos):
          * avformat,
          * avcodec,
          * swscale,
          * avutil,
          * swresample or avresample.
      - OpenGL and GLU (or OpenGLES for GLES version)
      - JPEG library
      - Make and Package Config
      - Xrandr

   * Optional:
      - Fontconfig (to assist with finding fonts).
      - Xinerama (for multiple monitor support).
      - libarchive (for .7z, .rar, .tar.gz and .tar.bz2 archive support).
      - Libcurl (for network info/artwork scraping).

2. Extract the Attract-Mode source to your system.

3. From the directory you extracted the source into, run:

           make

   or, if you are building on a Raspberry Pi, O-Droid or another embedded
   system, you can build the OpenGL ES version with the following:

           make USE_GLES=1

   This step will create the "attract" executable file.

4. The final step is to actually copy the Attract-Mode executable and data
   to a location where they can be used.  To install on a system-wide basis
   you should run:

           sudo make install

   This will copy the "attract" executable to `/usr/local/bin/` and default
   data to `/usr/local/share/attract/`.  Note: if you are building the OpenGL
   ES version you need to include the `USE_GLES=1` parameter here as well.

   For a single user install on Linux or FreeBSD, you can complete this step
   by copying the contents of the "config" directory from the Attract-Mode
   source directory to the location that you will use as your Attract-Mode
   config directory.  By default, this config directory is located in
   `$HOME/.attract` on Linux/FreeBSD systems.

   NOTE: The Attract-Mode makefile tries to follow the GNU standards for
   specifying installation directories: <https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Directory-Variables.html>.
   If you want to change the location where Attract-Mode looks for its default
   data from `/usr/local/share/attract` you should change these values
   appropriately before running the `make` and `make install` commands.

Someone more experienced might be able to walk you through it. Good luck!

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