[arch-general] Anyone building pdftk for Archlinux?

[Andrei Thorp]

I've personally found yaourt kind of sketchy, but perhaps others' milage varies.

-AT

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 7:01 AM, Edgar Kalkowski
<eMail at edgar-kalkowski.de> wrote:
> Or you install yaourt (via makepkg) which can transparently install from aur, too.
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> On Mittwoch, 22. April 2009, 13:59:45 Andrei Thorp wrote:
>> Basically, you click "download Tarball", unpack the tarball, cd into
>> the directory and do "makepkg -s"
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>> This will download the sources, build the package as per PKGBUILD
>> script, and gives you the resulting Arch package. pacman -U pkg_file
>> will install it.
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> -AT
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:11 PM, David Rosenstrauch <darose at darose.net> wrote:
>> > On Wed, April 22, 2009 12:06 am, David C. Rankin wrote:
>> >> David Rosenstrauch wrote:
>> >>> David C. Rankin wrote:
>> >>>> Listmates,
>> >>>>
>> >>>>     Looking for my favorite swiss army knife for pdf files (pdftk) I
>> >>>> was unable to
>> >>>> locate it with pacman -Ss pdftk and no luck.
>> >>>
>> >>> It's in the AUR:
>> >>>
>> >>> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O=0&L=0&C=0&K=pdftk&SeB=nd&PP=25
>> >>>
>> >>> i.e., you have to build it yourself.
>> >>>
>> >>> DR
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> Great,
>> >>
>> >>       I'm still reading through the AUR info to see if there are any tricks
>> >> beyond
>> >> the normal:
>> >>
>> >> if ! autoconf; then
>> >>       ./configure --help
>> >>       (read, make educated guesses)
>> >>       ./configure --your guesses
>> >>       make
>> >>       make install
>> >> else
>> >>       go rtfm again to remember autoconf
>> >>       ./configure --help
>> >>       (read, make educated guesses)
>> >>       ./configure --your guesses
>> >>       make
>> >>       make install
>> >> fi ;-)
>> >
>> > ???
>> >
>> > How about "makepkg".
>> >
>> > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ABS#The_build_function.2C_the_ABS_way
>> >
>> > DR
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