Vimiv for viewing images: install issues

[pmb]

hello,

(I am new to EOS. I have been using it for a couple days and really like it. I have never used an arch based distro before.)

I searched this forum for “vimiv” (an image viewer with vim key bindings) and it doesn’t appear so maybe no one is familiar with it, but I have a general Q about installing packages.

Vimiv is no longer developed and they suggest using vimiv-qt instead. I can find vimiv with pacman and vimiv-qt with yay. I try installing with yay and it asked a couple questions, as follows, and i just hit enter, then it gave exit error 10:

i searched my system for vimiv and it doesn’t appear (i thought i might find something in .cache/yay in the home directory). Does this mean the install was completely abandoned and using the more reliable: pacman -S vimiv should be preferred, despite the fact it’s deprecated? thanks

[dalto]

It looks like you tried to use sudo with yay. Don’t do that.

Just type:

yay -S vimiv-qt

The reason for this is that packages from AUR are built on your local machine. The build process should never be run as root. root is only needed when you install the built package.

[pmb]

excellent, thanks. I remember someone telling me you should only use sudo when it’s really necessary. Seems I forgot that lesson