Arch/Manjaro PKGBUILD

sorteal

My apologies if this is the wrong place to request this but I wasn't able to find an alternative. Is there any plans to include a PKGBUILD to the download page for Arch based distributions? There are a few variations in the AUR but none of them seem to run quite right. A designated PKGBUILD for Vivaldi from Vivaldi would be amazing to see. Also, I am aware that .deb and .rpm packages can be converted so they may be installed on Arch/Manjaro systems but the ability to download a PKGBUILD directly from softwares site is always a nice thing.

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Komposten

I use the official .sh script on my Manjaro machine. It doesn't auto-update, but the latest snapshot is just an install-vivaldi.sh call away.

Steffie

@sorteal Use the herecura repo. Follow @potmeklecbohdan 's excellent guide:
https://potmeklecbohdan.vivaldi.net/341/installing-vivaldi-on-arch-linux/

Ike [Black Eagle] is a long-time trusted Arch maintainer & Dev -- he's already done all the hard work for us. This method is superior to using AUR, & also means that all ongoing system updates that you do when you sudo pacman -Syyu will automatically include your V-SS &/or V-S.

A Former User

@Steffie said in Arch/Manjaro PKGBUILD:

-Syyu

I may have misunderstood it, but after reading the warning here I either -Syu or -Syyuu coz it should be safer.

Steffie

@potmeklecbohdan It's deliberate that i do that. Over the past several years in the MJ forum [before they recently destroyed it] this has been the source of strident opinions & vehement disagreements. There was one point in time that -Syyu was "flavour of the month" & that's what i adopted.

I know that lately the "flavour of the month" became -Syu, but that is dangerous for me & i refuse to use it routinely, because... all the way down here in UpsideDownLand the mirrors are severely crappy, rarely up to date quickly, & slow. Hence, each time i am ready to do my half-weekly or weekly updates the first thing i do is run sudo reflector --protocol https --verbose --latest 10 --fastest 5 --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist. If i were to then use -Syu afaik i would run a severe risk of breakage from a partial update, whereas using "my" command forces the resync first, avoiding the risk.

When the Arch News, or a forum or other sourse, informs me that one or more packages need a downgrade, then i do instead use -Syyuu ... but for me that is comparatively rare.

It is a certainty IMO that other Archers will vociferously disagree with me, but this schema has been working fine for me.

sorteal

@Steffie thank you very much. This was extremely useful.

npro

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