electricfence on AUR (Arch User Repository)

Last updated: February 03,2025

1. Install "electricfence" 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 electricfence on Arch using YAY


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


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


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


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

ID: 988079
Name: electricfence
PackageBaseID: 15370
PackageBase: electricfence
Version: 2.2.6-1
Description: A malloc(3) debugger that uses virtual memory hardware to detect illegal memory accesses.
URL: https://packages.debian.org/sid/electric-fence
NumVotes: 24
Popularity: 0
OutOfDate:
Maintainer: edh
Submitter: net147
FirstSubmitted: 1203944280
LastModified: 1636805536
URLPath: /cgit/aur.git/snapshot/electricfence.tar.gz