Howdy! Maybe someone can help me with this situation… Feeling a little blind
I’ve been trying to install packages that are listed on the AUR (https://aur.archlinux.org/ ), however many of the specific items I’ve been looking for aren’t being located by pacman for some reason.
I’ve searched for these items:j4-dmenu-desktop vscodium
code-git chromium-snapshot-bin
But nothing seems to come up. Other packages, such as i3, nodejs and others come up just fine.
I’ve tried forcing a repository update with “pacman -Syy” as well, but no luck.
Is anyone else having this issue? Would it happen to be common?
dalto
July 9, 2021, 8:25pm
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It is extremely common. It effects everyone.
pacman is only for repo packages. It doesn’t search for or install packages from the AUR.
Instead, use yay, it uses the same syntax as pacman but works with both the repos and AUR.
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Dude, you’re my hero, thank you XD
I come from the land of debian so this is good info to know
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dalto
July 9, 2021, 8:29pm
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Also…welcome to the forum!
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Thanks! Pleasure to be here
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You can also use Bauh package manager, which does search installed and uninstalled packages from AUR.
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Thanks! I’ll have a look at that as well
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I advocate ‘paru’ as a unified installer.
kjw
July 10, 2021, 5:28am
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Happy learning Arch. KISS …
