colortail-git on AUR (Arch User Repository)

Last updated: July 02,2024

1. Install "colortail-git" 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 colortail-git on Arch using YAY


    
        
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                yay -S
            
                        
                colortail-git
            
                    
    
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* (Optional) Uninstall colortail-git on Arch using YAY


    
        
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                yay -Rns
            
                        
                colortail-git
            
                    
    
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2. Manually Install "colortail-git" 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 colortail-git's git locally


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


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

ID: 304086
Name: colortail-git
PackageBaseID: 111445
PackageBase: colortail-git
Version: 20160223.3b76525e-1
Description: Colortail works like tail but can optionally read one or more config files where it's specified which patterns results in which colors.
URL: https://github.com/joakim666/colortail
NumVotes: 1
Popularity: 0.02138
OutOfDate:
Maintainer: akkenoth
Submitter: akkenoth
FirstSubmitted: 1463698020
LastModified: 1463698144
URLPath: /cgit/aur.git/snapshot/colortail-git.tar.gz