Update broke wifi module yet again rtl8192eu-dkms

$ makepkg -si
==> ERROR: PKGBUILD does not exist.

Seems like the solution is described here https://github.com/Jguer/yay/issues/1179 :

You need to clone the AUR git repo.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/yay/

However, I don’t understand, clone it where? Just clone it into what folder, and that’s it? Then makepkg -si will work?

If it’s an URL that doesn’t provide a PKGBUILD file, you can’t use makepkg.
You can get the PKGBUILD with :

yay -G rtl8192eu-git

See my last 2 messages.

... rtl8192eu-linux-driver]$ yay -G rtl8192eu-git
:: (1/1) Downloaded PKGBUILD: rtl8192eu-git
... rtl8192eu-linux-driver]$ makepkg -si
==> ERROR: PKGBUILD does not exist.

This is to install yay. :wink:

yay -G rtl8192eu-git

cd rtl8192eu-git

makepkg -si
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I just built it no problem! :wink:

This did it. Thanks a lot.

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In the future if an update breaks something, don’t forget about “downgrade” :slight_smile:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/downgrade

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Yes, I knew about downgrade… but the next update would have broken it again anyway… or it wouldn’t have broken?

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I had to downgrade the amd-unicode or whatever because it made all my apps (mostly games) get REALLY dysfunctional and chuggy. I’ll probably have to wait until the June release to update it lol

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