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| author |  http://alerque.com/ <Caleb@web> | 2014-04-23 08:40:41 +0000 |
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| committer |  admin <admin@branchable.com> | 2014-04-23 08:40:41 +0000 |
| commit | 4428d36fb32c70271f07314c4c3b3aac7cbc87e8 (patch) | |
| tree | 64b3ab8517835f2055302fd94ec8007e898bcfdc /doc/install | |
| parent | 46e196b5956073866a50c1d7a4e1ec24d371edc5 (diff) | |
rewrote to represent the actual state of affairs for installing on Arch
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/install/ArchLinux.mdwn | 29 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/doc/install/ArchLinux.mdwn b/doc/install/ArchLinux.mdwn index 807387e0b..27bab7d83 100644 --- a/doc/install/ArchLinux.mdwn +++ b/doc/install/ArchLinux.mdwn @@ -1,20 +1,19 @@ -There is a non-official source package for git-annex in -[AUR](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44272). +There are three non non-official packages for git-annex in the Archlinux User Repository. Any of these may be installed manually per [AUR guidelines](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_User_Guidelines#Installing_packages) or using a wrapper such as [`yaourt`](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/yaourt) shown below. -You can then build it yourself or use a wrapper for AUR -such as yaourt: +1. The simplest method is to use the [git-annex-bin](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/git-annex-bin/) package based on the [prebuilt Linux tarballs](http://downloads.kitenet.net/git-annex/linux/current/). This package includes many of the binary shims from the pre-built package. Although common Linux system utilities have been stripped in favor of normal dependencies, the pre-configured Haskell libraries included out of the box make this an easy install. The disadvantage is the resulting installation is a bit on the heavy side at nearly 100M. -<pre> -$ yaourt -Sy git-annex -</pre> + $ yaourt -Sy git-annex-bin ----- +2. A more traditional source package is available at [git-annex](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/git-annex/). This depends on a large number of Haskell packages available from a third party repository or through Cabal. This has been historically a bit problematic and the package frequently sits flagged out of date. The state of dependencies also varies, so some intervention may be required to get this option to work. -I'm told the AUR has some dependency problems currently. -If it doesn't work, you can just use cabal: + $ yaourt -Sy git-annex -<pre> -pacman -S git rsync curl wget gnupg openssh cabal-install -cabal update -cabal install git-annex --bindir=$HOME/bin -</pre> +3. A development package is available at [git-annex-git]() that functions similarly to the source package but builds directly from the HEAD of the git repository rather that the last official release. + + $ yaourt -Sy git-annex-git + +Finally you may choose to forgo the Archlinux package system and install git-annex directly through cabal. + + $ pacman -S git rsync curl wget gnupg openssh cabal-install + $ cabal update + $ cabal install git-annex --bindir=$HOME/bin |