Installing sublime-text 2 with pacman

Question

I want to install sublime-text 2 in Arch Linux with pacman package manager; how i can do this work?

Answer 1

Since sublime-text is a package in AUR you will need to install some pacman helper like packer. To install packer:

pacman -S base-devel fakeroot jshon expac git
#create a dir somewhere, eg. $HOME
mkdir ~/packer/
cd ~/packer
wget https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pa/packer/PKGBUILD
#Run makepkg on the PKGBUILD as a regular user
makepkg
#install the package with (as root)
pacman -U packer-*.pkg.tar.gz

Personally I go beyond this and also edit ~/.bashrc to add some aliases like these:

alias pac="sudo /usr/bin/packer -S"             # default action        - install one or more packages
alias pacu="/usr/bin/packer -Syu"               # '[u]pdate'            - upgrade all packages to their newest version
alias pacs="/usr/bin/packer -Ss"                # '[s]earch'            - search for a package using one or more keywords
alias paci="/usr/bin/packer -Si"                # '[i]nfo'              - show information about a package
alias paclo="/usr/bin/packer -Qdt"              # '[l]ist [o]rphans'    - list all packages which are orphaned
alias pacc="sudo /usr/bin/packer -Scc"          # '[c]lean cache'       - delete all not currently installed package files
alias paclf="/usr/bin/packer -Ql"               # '[l]ist [f]iles'      - list all files installed by a given package
alias pacexpl="/usr/bin/packer -D --asexp"      # 'mark as [expl]icit'  - mark one or more packages as explicitly installed 
alias pacimpl="/usr/bin/packer -D --asdep"      # 'mark as [impl]icit'  - mark one or more packages as non explicitly installed
alias pacro="/usr/bin/packer -Qtdq > /dev/null && sudo /usr/bin/packer -Rs \$(/usr/bin/packer -Qtdq | sed -e ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/ /g')" #[r]emove [o]rphaned packages - BE CAREFULL

Answer 2

sudo yaourt -S sublime-text-dev