beacon on AUR (Arch User Repository)

Last updated: January 06,2025

1. Install "beacon" effortlessly via AUR with the help of a helper(YAY)

a. Install YAY (https://github.com/Jguer/yay)


    
        
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                sudo pacman -S --needed git base-devel && git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git && cd yay && makepkg -si
            
                    
    
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b. Install beacon on Arch using YAY

* (Optional) Uninstall beacon on Arch using YAY

2. Manually Install "beacon" via AUR

a. Ensure you have the base development tools and git installed with:


    
        
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                sudo pacman -S --needed
            
                        
                base-devel git
            
                    
    
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b. Clone beacon's git locally


    
        
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                git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/beacon.git 
            
                        
                ~/beacon
            
                    
    
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c. Go to ~/beacon folder and install it


   
    
        
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                cd
            
                        
                ~/beacon
            
                    
    
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                makepkg -si
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the beacon package on Arch User Repository (AUR)

ID: 622499
Name: beacon
PackageBaseID: 142862
PackageBase: beacon
Version: 1.1.0-1
Description: Tiny system utility reporting CPU, memory, uptime to logs, cloudwatch, http
URL: https://github.com/shazbits/beacon
NumVotes: 0
Popularity: 0
OutOfDate:
Maintainer: romzr
Submitter: romzr
FirstSubmitted: 1560834129
LastModified: 1560834129
URLPath: /cgit/aur.git/snapshot/beacon.tar.gz