The AUR is a place where all the pkgbuilds are kept for many interesting applications. They are maintained by you and me so regular users. In this case on 1st April 2018 the maintainer is on holiday. In the meantime the developers from spotify deleted a file on the...

In the video I am looking at the ffmpeg file while I should have been looking at the ffmpeg-extra file In this article we are going to become a little more technical. It is not necessary to follow along since updates in Arch Linux take about 3-5 days and then your...

An application coming from AUR will always have a PKGBUILD you can read and edit. Normally there is no need for that. Just in some odd occasions you will need to edit it to overcome an installation problem. Jan 2018 conky-lua-archers is a great example how to solve an...

When I installed zoom the other day I had an error message "Duplicate target". This has happened also with other applications. Pacman finds two pkg.tar.xz files and is confused. When errors occur, go to your /tmp folder and check what is happening. When you installed...

Packages or applications coming from AUR can cause problems. The individuals have to maintain the pkgbuild and need to update it if the source changes, the checksum changes, and so many other variables. January 8, 2018 we had an example with snapd....

AUR or Arch User Repository does NOT contain applications. What it contains are recipes how to make applications. Let us call them : ways to build a package or PKGBUILDs. Every maintainer shares with us this 'recipe' on a voluntary basis without charge. In...