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Remy Marquis edited this page Dec 14, 2017 · 18 revisions

This project is now [unmaintained].


Note: Pacaur is targeted at advanced users who want some degree of automation for repetitive tasks. As such, the user is expected to be familiar with the AUR manual build process with makepkg and its configuration options, as well as being knowledgeable about sudo and gpg configuration.

If you are not a makepkg wizard already, help yourself with the wiki and stay away from this helper!

This means that absolutely no support is provided, unless you are ready to pay for it. For paying support, see Paypal link in man page.


AND FOR GODS SAKE, don't ask questions to me. I'm not here to fix your freaking INCOMPETENCE.

(Yes, the behavior of people that shouldn't use pacaur in the first place forces me to phrase it this way).


When reporting problems, please ensure that:

  • you have checked the existing reported issues to not post duplicate.
  • you have read the Notes section of the man page.
  • you are using the latest version of pacaur and its dependencies. Old versions are not supported.
  • makepkg -o && makepkg -es can build a package successfully. As pacaur relies exclusively on makepkg to build packages, the PKGBUILD must be corrected by its maintainer if makepkg fails.
  • the package and its dependencies provide correct AUR metadata on the RPC interface. As pacaur relies exclusively on the metadata to solve dependencies, the .SRCINFO file should be corrected by its maintainer if the information differs.
  • the problem is reproducible, and is not caused by a misconfiguration of pacaur, pacman, makepkg, sudoers, gpg or others.
  • the problem isn't due to the use of a third party wrapper, such as powerpill.

Please then post the output of pacaur <your command> as well as bash -x pacaur <your command> in the forum thread or on github to help debug the issue.

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