Mention AUR in installation methods
gunar opened this issue · comments
Someone already created a PKGBUILD for up
so it's just a matter of yaourt -Syy up
to install Ultimate Plumber on Arch/Manjaro systems. Thanks a bunch!
Related: #17
@gunar I don't think recommending yaourt is a good idea.
- it isn't under active development anymore
- it was never good in the first place
And it's worth noting that yaourt -Syy package
(or even pacman -Syy package
) is dangerous on Arch since you're refreshing your package database without doing a full system upgrade; see this for more information.
Also, AUR helpers aren't officially supported anyways. It's probably best to just state that there's an AUR package. That should be enough information for an Arch user to get it installed.
(pardon my off-topicness)
@sector-f welp, guess you're right, and now I've learned something. So what's the alternative to AUR helpers? Somehow getting notified of new versions then manually downloading and installing the code?
@gunar Oh, there's nothing inherently wrong with using package managers. It's just that they're not officially supported and so I don't think recommending a specific one is a good idea.
Consider asking the #archlinux IRC channel on Freenode for AUR helper suggestions; I'm sure they keep up with that stuff more than I do.