This is a video to show the workflow when you want to add a package that is on AUR and you want to add it to your packages list to build an iso.Lots of phases before you can use the package in a build.We will start from looking in AUR and end in...
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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 IF not you can flag the package out of date or try to fix it yourself.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...