Hi I installed Artix on this machine just a little while ago and I ran into this problem. I tried first installing yay. I followed the instructions on useing git and cding into the directory. Then I tried makepkg and it just gave me this error
==> ERROR: You do not have write permission for the directory $BUILDDIR (/home/hostname/yay).
I also tried installing the brave browser and the same error occured. I've looked at other forums and the usual response is do you have the base-devel package installed which I do. So I was wondering if I could get some help with this?
I have makepkg build dir in /tmp/makepkg (I want not stress my ssd too much)...
If this happens me,i use just
chmod 777 /tmp/makepkg
But be aware with home. You build it not as user yourself (hostname) , so that's why makepkg have no permission in home folder (home folder have no permissions for another users).if you need more space, move it to home (/home/yay) and 'chmod 777 /home/yay' .
ok thank you lets see if this works.
it didn't seem to work I might have to re-install
can you not set your build dir to tmp/yay as usually?
you an still use chmod -R 777 /home/hostname/yay , but i like this not , because you have to set 777 for home and your hostname. tmp is much more appropriate. if this doesn't fail either, then the problem will be somewhere else...
There is definatly something wrong somewhere else some pacman packages don't work either so i think my install is botched thank you for the help though.