How to create a package for an application – workflow – hyfetch as example
I had to make a package to hold the hyfetch.json I would like to give our users. This is a workflow video how I create a new github. I will push the file to github and then create a PKGBUILD for it.Then we push it to the internet on our repo so that anyone can install...
10 Adding more servers for our repository – creating our own mirrorlist
We give you a "in retrospect" video of what has been changed. What changed in Carli 10? We want to host our repo also on Gitlab.com so we have a fall-back and a choice. Users can decide for themselves which one is better for them. We create a new package to include...
Creating a PKGBUILD for arcolinux-wallpapers-candy-git with Leftwm design in mind
Let us make a PKGBUILD for Leftwm called arcolinux-wallpapers-candy-git. you find something on internet that you want to have on your computer it is not on the AUR create your own pkgbuild build it - makepkg double-click the xz file or put it on a repository online so...
How to build calamares – compare, change and build
In the video we will build Calamares with 3 different pkgbuilds. Google the words pkgbuild and Calamares and you will many more 'recipes' how to build the application. You will have to learn how to change Calamares to your personal requirements. We have explained that...
Now using Zstandard instead of xz for package compression
This does NOT concern the users ofArcoLinux or Arch Linux This does concern the packagersArcoLinuxB or CarliArch Linux decided to change the format of the packaging from pkg.tar.xz to pkg.tar.zst. I let you read the official message from Arch Linux. See image above....
Creating a PKGBUILD for surfn-arc-breeze and putting it online on AUR for everyone to download
Let us make a pkgbuild for the surfn-arc-breeze because you find something on internet that you want to have on your computer it is not on the AUR create your own pkgbuild put it in the AUR for others to use Read the AUR submission guidelines....
Creating a pkgbuild from scratch and putting it on AUR
What if you find an application you like and it is not on the AUR. Make the PKGBUILD yourself and put it on the AUR so others can benefit from your work and maintenance. We take gitfiend as example. https://gitfiend.com We have no notion if it is a good application or...
Analyzing the PKGBUILD of xcursor-breeze using updpkgsums
This was a very good opportunity to learn how to update a PKGBUILD yourself.It is not complex.The url is wrong and with a small correction that issue is fixed.The checksum is then wrong and with using the updpkgsums application we can auto update the...
Building a package in clean chroot environment
If you are building a package that needs to go on an iso it is good practice - if technically possible - to build it in a clean chroot environment.It is like having a small Arch Linux computer system on your ArcoLinux. A kind of jail Arch Linux they call...
Creating a PKGBUILD from scratch and putting it online on AUR – from A till AUR
In this video we will create a PKGBUILD for openbox themes coming from Adhi Pambudi. https://github.com/addy-dclxvi/openbox-theme-collections First we check that there is not already a package providing these openbox themes. There can be no doubles on AUR...
How to make the pkgbuild for the Sardi and Surfn Mint-Y icon themes
Making pkgbuilds is part of making your own distribution in the future. The more video's you seen and the more pkgbuilds you read the more you will get what is going on and what is needed to get the work done.This is a fairly simple exercise since we are...
How to make a PKGBUILD for ufetch-arco
Ufetch is one of your funscripts that we can install on our system. You can find all the information about the fun script here. We discover that ufetch has a specific Arco look for the script. We decided to make a separate package for ArcoLinux called ufetch-arco-git....
What is a meta package and how to create one
We started reading the wiki page about creating packages first. Read the guidelines we should follow. Then we analyze pkgbuilds of others. And finally we copy/paste this code to make our own package. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gnome-meta/ Normally these...
Submicron wallpapers pkgbuild series
There are 11 video's on the topic. Use the button on the top left inside the youtube window to switch. In this video series we will see my complete workflow how I got from a huge download to packages that ArcoLinux users can install. We create githubs. We...
Fastest and easiest fix to have spotify on 1st of April 2018
It can happen that a PKGBUILD is no longer working. There are many variables that can go wrong. First you go to the AUR Arch Linux website and see if something posted a fix. IF not you can flag the package out of date or try to fix it yourself. We are going to...
Analyzing a pkgbuild of vivaldi-codecs-ffmpeg-extra-bin and updating it
Let us write the PGKBUILD ourselves. We download the snapshot of the latest vivaldi-codecs-ffmpeg-extra-bin. We extract it and this will be our 'playground'. We will change the pkgbuild here. Then we go and surf to the source to see what is there. We need to find a...
How to build a package to get ready to release an iso
When we launch an iso we need to update all the AUR packages so that we have an up-to-date iso. We go to the AUR and download the snapshot. Build the particular packages and update them on the ArcoLinux iso repo. Basically we check if we have the latest version...
How to build a package from AUR with MAKEPKG
Let us build trizen from the AUR with the PKGBUILD. Monthly (before each release) we check if the AUR packages got a new version. Then we download a snapshot of the pkgbuild and build it ourselves with makepkg. .pkg.tar.xz is your extension (signal) that you can...
How to make a package and include it in your repo
We are showing you how to make a package and will post it later on the ArcoLinux repo. We surf to the AUR packages website of Arch Linux and look for xfce4-panel-profiles. We download the snapshot and extract it. The PKGBUILD file is your recipe to create a...