Yay gives me prepare() failure error

[Kresimir]

@manadipendente

Oh thank you, so it’s better if I always check aur website before install? btw it happens also for gimp. It’s the same issue?

You should read these topics:

[FAQ] What is the AUR?

The Arch User Repository (AUR) is a collection of user-submitted package description files ( PKGBUILD files). These description files can be used to create package archive files ( .pkg.tar.zst files). These PKGBUILD files can be used by an AUR helper (e.g. yay , aurman , Pamac) or manually built using makepkg. The resulting package archive file can then be installed in the normal way. All content on the AUR is uploaded by ordinary users and very little checking of their content is done - it is…

AUR PKGBUILDs

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…

How to Install Apps from AUR

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. Depending on the specific package, we may also need other programs, like compilers and build systems. These are called “make dependencies”. Typically, making a package from the AUR involves the following …