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How to install and use pikaur and makepkg on a server

Posted by Alex On December 8, 2024

How to run pikaur as root For more information on pikaur, see the article: Automatic installation and update of AUR packages The makepkg utility and (sometimes) pikaur do not work when run as root. This is not usually a problem for most users, but I have encountered a situation where on a headless server where there is only one user...

Error “TypeError: 'AURPackageInfo' does not have attribute 'submitter'” (SOLVED)

Posted by Alex On December 5, 2022

pikaur is a utility for facilitating the installation and updating of programs from the AUR. You can read more about pikaur in the article “Automatic installation and update of AUR packages”. pikaur's options are similar to pacman, but you don't need to use sudo. For example, updating all packages is done with the following command: pikaur -Syu On my Arch...

How to download a package without installation in Arch Linux and Manjaro. How to download the AUR package source code

Posted by Alex On May 22, 2022

How to download a package with pacman (from standard repositories) To download a package without installing it, use the -w option: sudo pacman -Sw PACKAGE By default, the package will be downloaded to pacman's package cache directory, with the --cachedir option you can specify any other directory to save the package to: sudo pacman -Sw --cachedir DIRECTORY PACKAGE For example,...

How to view package information in Arch Linux (BlackArch, Manjaro)

Posted by Alex On February 18, 2021

For each package in the system, you can find out such information as: version number, description, developer site, dependencies, recommended dependencies, packages with which there is a conflict, size, etc. The commands described in this post work the same in Arch Linux, as well as all distributions based on it, such as BlackArch, Manjaro and others. If you are interested...