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Former distrohoppers, where did you settle down? (lemm.ee)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] lordnikon 1 points 8 months ago (8 children)

I have to say I dont get the AUR I have been using Debian for the past 20 years and have tried Arch based out on my steam deck and in Distrobox on my sid gaming PC and I just don't get it.

I hear all these great things about the AUR but when I tried it. It didn't seem to be that much easier than building a Deb pkg or doing a make install from source. the way I hear people talk about it I figured it was just like installing from a source Repo on Debian.

please note I'm not saying anything bad about Arch I personally love the arch wiki it's great to even fix things in Debian. I just personally don't get it. maybe I'm not using it right or distobox does not give me the full experience. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

[–] I_poop_from_there 1 points 8 months ago (7 children)

For me, AURs main advantage is the huge library of software available. No mess resolving dependencies like when manually building from source and no issues with 3rd party repos breaking each others dependencies like in PPA

[–] lordnikon 2 points 8 months ago (6 children)

yeah I get dependency resolution from apt build-dep in Debian but like what commands do you use to build a package with the AUR. From what I read it's

search the AUR website git clone tar xf pag.tar makepkg -csi packagename

am I missing something or is there an easier way that I am just not seeing?

i promise I'm not trolling I really want to learn.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not sure why noone has pointed this out but if you use paru or yay instead of pacman, installing/searching the AUR is the same as if they are in the main repo. It does all the building etc for you.

[–] lordnikon 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

hmm okay thanks I will check those out maybe that is the missing piece.

so paru is the equivalent to apt-build install

but unlike Debian the Repo is outside the distribution.

i think I'm getting it thank you while I have no interest in leaving debian but this will be fun in distrobox.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

To be specific..

Install something from the main repo:

$ paru -S package

Install something from the AUR:

$ paru -S package

To search for a package, in the main repo or the AUR:

$ paru -Ss search-term

With the search results, it clearly labels if something is from the AUR or extras or the main repo, and you can make it show AUR results first or last in the config.

https://github.com/Morganamilo/paru

I don't actually use pacman directly at all, I use paru for everything and it's seamless.

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