Questions tagged [yaourt]
A pacman wrapper that adds seamless access to the Arch User Repository (AUR).
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ERROR: target not found: yaourt
I'm new to arch so any help on this subject is much appreciated. I have been trying to install yaourt on manjaro, but this is the error message I receive.
[manjaro@manjaro-pc ~]$ sudo pacman -S ...
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I cannot install Yaourt: I do not have write permission for the directory
These are the instructions (https://manjaro.site/how-to-install-yaourt-on-arch-linux/) to install Yaourt:
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/package-query.git
cd package-query
makepkg -si
cd ..
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Arch: Is yaourt deprecated?
I came across this article saying that yaourt is deprecated.
I wanted to look up more information about that on Arch Wiki, but found that yaourt is not listed on the list of AUR helpers, which is ...
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What is this ffmpeg dependency error telling me and how do I fix it?
At some point, I had an error with dependencies and had to remove some forcefully with pacman -Rdd libvpx libx264.
I have since reinstalled them, however I get this error upon each yaourt -Syua:
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How to solve errors after yaourt -S code aborted accidentally,
When I was installing code with yaourt -S code, something like ctrl d was typed accidentally. Then I try to install yaourt -S code again:
gyp: Call to 'pkg-config --libs-only-l libsecret-1' returned ...
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ntp-4.2.8.p10-1 fails after upgrade due to libcrypto.so.1.0.0 (installed 1.1) dependency and wants downgrade to 4.2.8.p9-2. How does that make sense?
Disclaimer:
This really is not a major issue critical to the stable operation of my system but I am asking this because I simply can't make any sense of it and I would really like to know what is ...
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Arch Linux - Acquire or Compile missing PHP extensions
I've installed my first Arch Linux setup, and loving it thus far, with the small exception of setting up my dev environment properly.
My previous OS was Ubuntu 16.04 on which I ran Nginx, PHP5.6-FPM ...
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Yaourt: how to list dependencies for a package?
How can I list the dependencies for a given package?
I thought this should be an easy task for Google, but I only found yaourt -Sq --depends <pkg>, which lists all packages that depend on <...
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How to stop sudo from timing out?
I update my Arch-Linux system using yaourt. When updating packages from the AUR, yaourt doesn't allow itself to be run as root, so it instead asks for sudo privileges every time it installs / updates ...
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How can I install Gimp 2.9 in Arch Linux?
I am trying to install Gimp 2.9 in arch linux.
Following instructions from this site (which I can hardly understand), I have attempted to install gimp-devel via yaourt. However, I receive an error ...
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problem makepkg was unable to build with conky-lua
Since yesterday, i have a problem and i can't install conky-lua.
I have the errors belows and i have tried to install others package and change my pkgbuild but nothing change.
When I try : yaourt -S ...
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How to force yaourt to install all updates
I'm trying to update my system via yaourt, but I'm getting an error due to a python package installed with pip instead of yaourt.
I'm not succeeding in forcing yaourt to install the update, and I'd ...
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finding rar in yaourt
I try to install rar using yaourt, problem is I get +5k results and can't filter out the package containing rar. Neither |grep helps nor |head, the first hundreds of lines are lib'rar'ies.
What could ...
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Can't downgrade Linux kernel: not enough free disk space
I'm stuck in an archiso/chrooted environment (booting from a USB flash drive) because my Wi-Fi drivers are incompatible with Linux 4.8.7-1, and cause the system to hang at boot. I'm trying a few ...
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How do you list installed meta packages on Arch Linux?
I'd like to list all meta packages that I installed.
Installed with pikaur or pacman
operating system is Arch Linux
Problem
When I install plasma-meta and run pacman -Qg, I can only see plasma. This ...
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Yaourt: limiting output (ignoring AUR? RegEx?)
I'm really enjoying yaourt to search for packages, except then yaourt just tries to ddos me, displaying like 1,000+ packages for some searches...
How can I effectively limit the output length?
For ...
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Tring to install Atom Text Editor on my Arch by using Yaourt
I am currently trying to install Atom Text Editor (atom-editor on Yaourt). However I get the errors below:
==> Downloading atom-editor-arch PKGBUILD from AUR...
x .SRCINFO
x .gitignore
x PKGBUILD
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cannot install anything using yaourt on Arch Linux
If I try to install using yaourt I get same error for every package, and it asks me to build package again and again.
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libfakeroot.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded
(cannot ...
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How to use yaourt on arch linux under proxy?
How do I install applications using yaourt under proxy network.
For pacman I can simply use:
export http_proxy=http://usernm:passwd@link:port
sudo -E pacman -S application
But how do I do this for ...
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Always answer Yes to replace package Arch Linux [duplicate]
I am trying to build the latest KDE Frameworks git packages. However, I currently have installed the stable non-git packages. In order to install all of the git packages I need to answer 'y' to all of ...
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Arch Linux - make: error while loading shared libraries: libunistring
I keep getting this same error when trying to install various packages:
make: error while loading shared libraries: libunistring.so.0:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
It's ...
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Getting the error invalid option '--asroot' on packages
When trying to install the package kodi-standalone-service however after I get prompted for editing the PKGBUILD then I get this error.
makepkg: invalid option '--asroot'
Unable to read PKGBUILD
I ...
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preserving colors when piping yaourt through sort
Can sort preserve piped in colors? I'm trying to modify yaourt -Qu | sort so I get color output. Tried googling this but I couldn't find a general way nor a special way to do this for sort.
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First KDE Session
I was curious, so I installed kde alongside gnome (which I use primarily, for the matter).
I am running arch linux, and I installed kde using yaourt, by the following command:
yaourt -Syua # update ...
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How can I responsibly run updates automatically on Arch Linux?
I'm a bit of a newcomer to Arch Linux and still getting used to some of its paradigms. I come with a lot of habits from another distro that was quite a bit more structured and in some ways predictable....
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yaourt curl error: Couldn't connect to server
I'm trying to install some packages with yaourt.
For example, when I try to install Google Chrome, I get the following error:
$ yaourt google-chrome
curl error: Couldn't connect to server
I can ...
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yaourt curl error: SSL connect error
I'm trying to install some packages form yaourt.
For example :
yaourt compiz
But it gets me following error:
[hamed@localhost ~]$ yaourt compiz
curl error: SSL connect error
Please tell me what's ...
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How do I unset a variable at the command line?
I have tried the following command to set Proxy on yaourt:
export ALL_PROXY=http://proxy.example.com:8080
The question is how to unset the proxy on yaourt?
In general, how can I unset the value of a ...
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How to recognize harmful AUR packages
How do I recognize if a package which is installed via yaourt on arch linux could be harmful to my pc? I read in the wiki that I should check every installation I make with yourt. But what exactly do ...
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yaourt -Syu is not working in arch linux
I tried yaourt -Syu and got this error:
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: Starting full system upgrade...
:: nvidia: requires linux<3.11
how could I solve ...
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Make yaourt does not reinstall when already installed
Is there a way to make yaourt does not reinstall when the package (from AUR) already installed
$ yaourt -Q jruby
local/jruby 1.7.3-1
but somehow
$ yaourt --needed --noconfirm -S jruby
keep ...
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How to recreate a package file from installed package?
I used yaourt to successfully build and install an AUR package, unfortunately missing the fact that in its default configuration the built package is removed after installation. Since the build took ...
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Check for updates of packages installed through yaourt
Is there anyway to update package installed with yaourt ? yaourt -Syu seems to do the same as pacman -Syu, which only care about package in official repository.
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Arch Linux: Yaourt/Makepkg Can Not Build Apache
I am using yaourt to automatically compile Apache from source every time there’s an update available from extra. I am doing this so that I can have a custom suexec docroot (/srv/www rather than the ...
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Error updating all ArchLinux packages with -Syu
I am on Arch Linux with Kde.
I haven't updated the packages in a while and I'm having a problem while trying to do so:
The first thing I tried was: sudo pacman -Syu as the documentation says, and I ...
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