caffeine-ng on AUR (Arch User Repository)

Last updated: October 06,2024

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

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

$ sudo pacman -S --needed git base-devel && git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git && cd yay && makepkg -si

b. Install caffeine-ng on Arch using YAY

$ yay -S caffeine-ng

* (Optional) Uninstall caffeine-ng on Arch using YAY

$ yay -Rns caffeine-ng

2. Manually Install "caffeine-ng" via AUR

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

$ sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel git

b. Clone caffeine-ng's git locally

$ git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/caffeine-ng.git ~/caffeine-ng

c. Go to ~/caffeine-ng folder and install it

$ cd ~/caffeine-ng $ makepkg -si

3. Information about the caffeine-ng package on Arch User Repository (AUR)

ID: 1254727
Name: caffeine-ng
PackageBaseID: 86713
PackageBase: caffeine-ng
Version: 4.2.0-1
Description: Status bar application able to temporarily inhibit the screensaver and sleep mode.
URL: https://codeberg.org/WhyNotHugo/caffeine-ng
NumVotes: 119
Popularity: 0.223215
OutOfDate:
Maintainer: whynothugo
Submitter: whynothugo
FirstSubmitted: 1413696369
LastModified: 1683541402
URLPath: /cgit/aur.git/snapshot/caffeine-ng.tar.gz

5. The same packages on other Linux Distributions