Troubleshooting

For general troubleshooting, see NOTES section in man page.

If encountering any issues, ensure first that your are using the latest versions of cower and pacaur.

Dependency pod2man not found

If the required ''pod2man'' dependency isn't found when building with makepkg, you'll have to ensure /usr/bin/core_perl is in your system $PATH.

Using gvim as editor

When using gvim as editor, gvim opens but the build continues. In the config file, try:

editor="gvim --nofork"

Auto completion

Bash

Because of speed issue, AUR completion is disabled by default.

You can enable it by uncommenting this line in the /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/pacaur file:

# S) _pacman_pkg Slq; _cower_pkg;; # disabled. Too slow and no fallback var support.

Zsh

You can disable AUR completion using the following zstyle:

zstyle ':completion:*:pacaur:*' remote-access false

The name remote-access mimics other completion zstyles like _cvs and _scp that use this for deciding whether to complete remote files or not.