dotfiles-git on AUR (Arch User Repository)

Last updated: December 26,2024

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

$ yay -S dotfiles-git

* (Optional) Uninstall dotfiles-git on Arch using YAY

$ yay -Rns dotfiles-git

2. Manually Install "dotfiles-git" via AUR

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

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

b. Clone dotfiles-git's git locally

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

c. Go to ~/dotfiles-git folder and install it

$ cd ~/dotfiles-git $ makepkg -si

3. Information about the dotfiles-git package on Arch User Repository (AUR)

ID: 538859
Name: dotfiles-git
PackageBaseID: 130842
PackageBase: dotfiles-git
Version: r358.8998a93-2
Description: A tool to make managing your dotfile symlinks in $HOME easy, allowing you to keep all of them in a single directory.
URL: https://github.com/jbernard/dotfiles
NumVotes: 0
Popularity: 0
OutOfDate:
Maintainer: husam212
Submitter: husam212
FirstSubmitted: 1521245054
LastModified: 1535413305
URLPath: /cgit/aur.git/snapshot/dotfiles-git.tar.gz