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A "recipe" for building Arch Linux packages.

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How to resume package building in debian?

I am running debian stretch and following this guide for building package from source for debian. Sometimes building process takes hours , when I run dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot again , it starts building from scratch. dpkg-buildpackage --help …
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How to update an Arch Linux PKGBUILD file for new version (printer driver)?

I want to install the CUPS driver for the Brother QL-1060N label printer on Arch Linux. Fortunately, there is an AUR package available. (Arch is amazing.) However, the AUR package is a bit out of date. My question is, how can I edit the PKGBUILD…
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How to check an AUR package for malicious code?

Malicious code has been found and deleted later from 3 AUR packages acroread, blaz and minergate (e,g: acroread PKGBUILD detail). It was found in a commit released by a malicious user by changing the owner of the orphaned AUR package and including a…
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Should I worry about 'WARNING: Package contains reference to $srcdir'?

I was building font-manager package from AUR on my Arch system. It is throwing a warning while the process : ==> WARNING: Package contains reference to $srcdir usr/lib/font-manager/libfontmanager.so.0.7.9 Should I worry about this warning ? Is it…
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Under Archlinux. How do I keep track of debug info for packages ?

I have the need for debug info for glibc. I constantly copy PKGBUILD out of /var/abs, and build the package, every time after I upgraded glibc. I wonder whether I can save the effort? Either forcing pacman do the job for me, or taking advantage of…
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Arch Linux: Why people do not do "make install" in PKGBUILD?

I'm analyzing different PKGBUILDs to learn creating packages for Arch. I saw in a lot of them, that they do make on sources, and then manually copy files in the different places with the install command, instead of running make install. Is there a…
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How to sign my own Arch Linux git packages for adding to a private repo?

I already have a GPG key configured. I have cloned the git source code package locally. I'm building in a chroot with extra-x86_64-build. I am able to build packages without signing and add them to the local private repo. Now I want to build the…
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"PKGBUILD does not exist" when running "makepkg -cf"

When I run makepkg -cf, I get an error: ==> ERROR: PKGBUILD does not exist. But if I run makepkg -p PKGBUILD.asc it works. Can someone explain to me someone why the first doesn't work?
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find package with multiple names pacman

Some packages like gcc-libs are apparently other packages, under a different name. turns out gcc-libs is just gcc: PKGBUILD if I want to install that package, I know I can run pacman -S gcc-libs, but how can I find the original package, as in, the…
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How to download and backup all pacman and pacaur packages?

I would like to have an backup of all pacaur and pacman packages. Example: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/ How to download it all?
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Error while loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.7

I am trying to install the Agena programming language for a school project on Arch Linux. There is no package in the AUR, so I am trying to make my own PKGBUILD file. I think I have managed to install it, but when I try to run it, I get this…
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Open Build Service: PKGBUILD complains: nothing provides perl

I am trying to get Open Build Service to accept this PKGBUILD: # Maintainer: Ole Tange pkgname=parallel pkgver=20200622 pkgrel=2 pkgdesc='Build and execute shell command lines from standard input in…
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error: PKGBUILD contains CRLF characters and cannot be executed

When trying to install some (though not all) packages from AUR using yay or pacaur, such as rstudio-desktop or zotero, I get the following errors (translated from German): :: checking integrity of zotero... ==> ERROR: PKGBUILD contains CRLF…
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How to determine dependencies for a package

Before I create a PKGBUILD I always double check the required libraries of an application with the ldd utility. Software developers frequently omit required packages from their README/INSTALL files and package names frequently differ between…
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How do I get git to give me an acceptable pkgver for Atom which I can use to check it out?

I am working on the atom-editor-git PKGBUILD in the AUR, hoping to turn it into an Atom equivalent to the gvim-git PKGBUILD. See the gvim-git PKGBUILD updates its package version whenever it is run to the latest release of gVim, e.g., if I was to…
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