Arch AUR installation fails

Question

Arch AUR installation fails

3j14 opened this issue 7 years ago · comments

On arch, the installation using yaourt fails because the package fakeroot does not come preinstalled on arch. It is part of the base-devel group.

Solution

sudo pacman -S base-devel

or

sudo pacman -S fakeroot

You might want to add this to the README.md

Keefer Rourke · Answer 1 · Mon Oct 23 2017 22:54:31 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

You should have installed fakeroot and/or base-devel as part of the installation process. I don't see a need to specify this in the README here. See the installation guide.

Jonas Drotleff · Answer 2 · Mon Oct 23 2017 23:01:40 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

base-devel is not required to be installed. base is sufficient for general usage. But I agree, it would be more usefull if fakeroot is added as an dependency in the PKGBUILD. Who is responsible for that?

Keefer Rourke · Answer 3 · Tue Oct 24 2017 07:58:46 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Who is responsible for that?

@jnsdrtlf I haven't run arch linux in over 2 years, and the PKGBUILD is maintained by someone else. I have only linked to it in the README for convenience.

... from the README:

There is an AUR PKGBUILD maintained by caiye