[SOLVED] VirtualBox Install Error

MTK358 · 03-08-2010, 01:12 PM

I was trying to install VirtualBox from AUR (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=9753). The problem is that it wants libpng12, which is outdated and makepkg cannot install it. Whan should I do?

Here is what happens:

Code:

$ makepkg -s
==> Making package: virtualbox_bin 3.1.4-3 x86_64 (Mon Mar  8 14:08:56 EST 2010)
==> Checking Runtime Dependencies...
==> Installing missing dependencies...
Password: 
libpng12 package not found, searching for group...
error: 'libpng12': not found in sync db
==> ERROR: Pacman failed to install missing dependencies.

reed9 · 03-08-2010, 01:18 PM

libpng12 is in the AUR as well.
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33795

makepkg won't build something from the AUR. If you use an AUR helper like bauerbill, it will build it for you, or download the PKGBUILD for libpng12 and build it separately first.

EDIT: I should say, makepkg won't automatically download, build, and install dependencies from the AUR. Obviously, it will build something from the AUR.

MTK358 · 03-08-2010, 02:14 PM

I am fully aware that makepkg cannot get packages form AUR.

I onec tried yaourt but it was so full an onnoying blinking (!) warnings which I cannot figure out how to answer yes to that I cancelled it and immediately ran "pacman -Rns yaourt".

A few weeks ago I wrote a script called "aur-get" that basically goes through the steps you would manually take to install a package. It's really kludgy and for some reason fails to delete its temporary working directory, but it did the job of installing libpng12 and virtualbox_bin.

Code:

#!/bin/bash

# This script installs Arch Linux packages from the AUR.

tmpdir="aur-get.$$.$RANDOM"
intmpdir="0"

function quit {
	if [ $intmpdir = "1" ]; then
		cd ..
	fi
	rm -r "$tmpdir"
	exit 0
}

# Check if root is executing this

if [ $(id --user) = "0" ]; then
	echo "It is recommended you do not do this as root."
	read -p "Do you want to continue [y/N]: " input
	if [ input != "y" ]; then
		quit
	fi
fi

url='http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/'"$1"'/'"$1"'.tar.gz'

# Make temporary working directory ##########################################

mkdir "$tmpdir"
if [ $? != "0" ]; then
	quit
fi
cd "$tmpdir"
intmpdir="1"

# Download and extract tarball ##############################################

echo ":: Downloading tarball..."
wget $url
if [ $? != "0" ]; then
	quit
fi

echo ":: Extracting tarball..."
tar -vzxf *.tar.gz
if [ $? != "0" ]; then
	quit
fi

rm *.tar.gz

# Ask user to review potentially dangerous files ############################

read -p "Do you want to review all PKGBUILD and .install files [Y/n]: " input
if [ input == "n" ]; then
	true
else
	(find . -name '*.install' -print; \
	find . -name 'PKGBUILD' -print) | \
	while read -r filename; do
		less "$filename"
	done
fi

cd *
if [ $? != "0" ]; then
	quit
fi

read -p "Are you sure you want to make this package [y/N]: " input
if [ "$input" != "y" ]; then
	quit
fi

# Install package ###########################################################

echo ":: Making package and installing dependencies..."
makepkg -s
if [ $? != "0" ]; then
	quit
fi

echo ":: Installing package..."
sudo pacman -U *.pkg.tar.gz
if [ $? != "0" ]; then
	quit
fi

# Remove temporary files ####################################################

cd ..
intmpdir="0"
rm -r $tmpdir

exit 0

reed9 · 03-08-2010, 02:49 PM

For a while I was just using pbget to fetch PKGBUILDS. But of late I've been switching between bauerbill and packer. Both far more usable that yaourt, IMHO.