find-broken-desktop on AUR (Arch User Repository)

Last updated: November 23,2024

1. Install "find-broken-desktop" 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 find-broken-desktop on Arch using YAY


    
        
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                yay -S
            
                        
                find-broken-desktop
            
                    
    
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* (Optional) Uninstall find-broken-desktop on Arch using YAY


    
        
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                yay -Rns
            
                        
                find-broken-desktop
            
                    
    
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2. Manually Install "find-broken-desktop" 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 find-broken-desktop's git locally


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


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

ID: 1347251
Name: find-broken-desktop
PackageBaseID: 193814
PackageBase: find-broken-desktop
Version: 1.3-3
Description: Find desktop entries files with broken executables. Similar in functionality to fbrokendesktop, but written in python to avoid some of the shortcomings of parsing .desktop files with shell scripts
URL:
NumVotes: 0
Popularity: 0
OutOfDate:
Maintainer: FirstAirBender
Submitter: FirstAirBender
FirstSubmitted: 1684520123
LastModified: 1699091380
URLPath: /cgit/aur.git/snapshot/find-broken-desktop.tar.gz