rafikiphoto 0 Posted February 1 Report Share Posted February 1 I am new to Linux Arch (Manjaro Cinnamon) and need step-by-step instructions to install the tar.gz downloaded client file. Can someone help please? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
0 mrneilypops 1 Posted February 1 Report Share Posted February 1 AUR? https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/torguard/?O=10&PP=10 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
0 rafikiphoto 0 Posted February 1 Author Report Share Posted February 1 Yes! One minute before I read your post I found that AUR wasn't activated and I then found it immediately. Thank you. I'd still like to know how to do it manually. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
0 Support 268 Posted February 11 Report Share Posted February 11 On 2/1/2021 at 1:37 PM, rafikiphoto said: Yes! One minute before I read your post I found that AUR wasn't activated and I then found it immediately. Thank you. I'd still like to know how to do it manually. Hello, Do to do so manually would be something like so: cd Downloads tar -xvzf torguard-latest-amd64-arch.tar.gz cd torguard-latest-amd64-arch makepkg -s sudo pacman -U *.pkg.tar Regards Quote Link to post Share on other sites
0 rafikiphoto 0 Posted April 2 Author Report Share Posted April 2 [[email protected] ~]$ cd Downloads [[email protected] Downloads]$ tar -xvzf torguard-latest-amd64-arch.tar.gz torguard-v4.5.1-amd64-arch/ torguard-v4.5.1-amd64-arch/torguard.install torguard-v4.5.1-amd64-arch/torguard-v4.5.1-amd64-arch.tar torguard-v4.5.1-amd64-arch/PKGBUILD [[email protected] Downloads]$ cd torguard-latest-amd64-arch bash: cd: torguard-latest-amd64-arch: No such file or directory [[email protected] Downloads]$ cd torguard-v4.5.1-amd64-arch [[email protected] torguard-v4.5.1-amd64-arch]$ makepkg -s ==> Making package: torguard 4.5.1-1 (Fri 02 Apr 2021 18:48:47 CEST) ==> Checking runtime dependencies... ==> Checking buildtime dependencies... ==> Retrieving sources... -> Found torguard-v4.5.1-amd64-arch.tar ==> Validating source files with md5sums... torguard-v4.5.1-amd64-arch.tar ... Passed ==> Extracting sources... -> Extracting torguard-v4.5.1-amd64-arch.tar with bsdtar ==> Entering fakeroot environment... ==> Starting package()... ==> Tidying install... -> Removing libtool files... -> Purging unwanted files... -> Removing static library files... -> Stripping unneeded symbols from binaries and libraries... -> Compressing man and info pages... ==> Checking for packaging issues... ==> Creating package "torguard"... -> Generating .PKGINFO file... -> Generating .BUILDINFO file... -> Adding install file... -> Generating .MTREE file... -> Compressing package... ==> Leaving fakeroot environment. ==> Finished making: torguard 4.5.1-1 (Fri 02 Apr 2021 18:48:54 CEST) [[email protected] torguard-v4.5.1-amd64-arch]$ sudo pacman -U *.pkg.tar [sudo] password for brian: loading packages... error: '*.pkg.tar': could not find or read package [[email protected] torguard-v4.5.1-amd64-arch]$ sudo pacman -U *.pkg.tar I was doing so well! Then failed on the last line. Can you help please? Below is the directory image. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
0 rafikiphoto 0 Posted April 4 Author Report Share Posted April 4 Ah, found what it should be on mine: sudo pacman -U torguard-4.5.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst That fixed it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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I am new to Linux Arch (Manjaro Cinnamon) and need step-by-step instructions to install the tar.gz downloaded client file. Can someone help please?
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