cronic on AUR (Arch User Repository)

Last updated: February 17,2025

1. Install "cronic" 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 cronic on Arch using YAY

* (Optional) Uninstall cronic on Arch using YAY

2. Manually Install "cronic" 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 cronic's git locally


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


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

ID: 331843
Name: cronic
PackageBaseID: 81919
PackageBase: cronic
Version: 3-1
Description: Cronic is a shell script to help control the most annoying feature of cron: unwanted emailed output.
URL: http://habilis.net/cronic/
NumVotes: 4
Popularity: 0.000168
OutOfDate:
Maintainer: tasn
Submitter: tasn
FirstSubmitted: 1400322788
LastModified: 1471877898
URLPath: /cgit/aur.git/snapshot/cronic.tar.gz