Hey guys, I'm kinda new to artix and arch-based distros in general, so please, be patient :'(
So, I'm trying to install ttf-ms-fonts and minecraft-launcher from the aur, without success. I go to the terminal and sudo pacman -Ss ttf-ms-fonts and it give me nothing. Yes, I have installed the artix-archlinux-support, added it to the /etc/pacman.conf file, even installed the multilib arch support and even activated omniverse, universe and lib32 and synchronized it. I'm out of ideas, please halp.
I don't know if it changes anything, but i'm using artix xfce.
Thanks in advance.
pacman neither works nor searches anything in AUR. pacman works with official repos only and does not work with AUR.
To work with AUR, you need to install (one of many) AUR helpers. I'd suggest yay or yaourtix packages. Both are present in [universe] Artix repo.
To install yay:
sudo pacman -Syu yay
To install yaourtix:
sudo pacman -Syu yaourtix
These two work with both official repos and AUR.
yaourtix package provides yaourt command - write yaourt, not yaourtix in terrminal.
yaourt syntax and usage are very close to pacman. yay syntax and usage are rather different from pacman.
Neither yay nor yaourt require elevated privileges when launched - never run them with sudo.
To install ttf-ms-fonts with yay:
yay -S ttf-ms-fonts
To install ttf-ms-fonts with yaourt:
yaourt -S ttf-ms-fonts
Edit: Typo
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_Repository
As in Arch, so in Artix.
An article on AUR helpers with the complete list of available AUR helpers:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AUR_helpers
https://artixlinux.org/news.php#Octopi_and_Pamac_moved_to_%5Buniverse%5D
https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,3186.msg21093.html#msg21093
Next time, https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,1923.0.html
Yeah man, looks like its trying to download but still giving me errors, its probally because I don't know how to use, so... am doing correctly?
eduardo-pc:[eduardo]:~$ yay -S ttf-ms-win10
:: There are 2 providers available for ttf-ms-win10:
:: Repository AUR
1) ttf-ms-win10 2) ttf-ms-win10-auto
Enter a number (default=1): 1
:: Checking for conflicts...
:: Checking for inner conflicts...
[Aur:1] ttf-ms-win10-10.0.19043.1055-1
1 ttf-ms-win10 (Build Files Exist)
==> Packages to cleanBuild?
==> [N]one [A]ll [Ab]ort [I]nstalled [No]tInstalled or (1 2 3, 1-3, ^4)
==> 4
:: PKGBUILD up to date, Skipping (1/0): ttf-ms-win10
1 ttf-ms-win10 (Build Files Exist)
==> Diffs to show?
==> [N]one [A]ll [Ab]ort [I]nstalled [No]tInstalled or (1 2 3, 1-3, ^4)
==> 4
:: (1/1) Parsing SRCINFO: ttf-ms-win10
==> ERROR: Cannot find the strip binary required for object file stripping.
-> error downloading sources: ttf-ms-win10
context: exit status 15
==> ERROR: Cannot find the strip binary required for object file stripping.
-> error making: ttf-ms-win10
eduardo-pc:[eduardo]:~$
I tried using option 1 before, but it got stuck (I guess) and I thought I needed to reboot before using it, hopefully it didn't break anything.
You need to,
$sudo pacman -S --needed git base-devel
before you can use AUR.
It just gave me a buch of errors of not found and that one or more files did not pass the validity check now... I guess I should be asking somewhere else about that right?
Read the F.A.Q. in the package's page. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ttf-ms-win10/, or install ttf-ms-win10-auto instead.
Dude. You got patience, didn't thought of that and I actually managed to install. Thanks everybody that helped.