gnome-characters-git on AUR (Arch User Repository)

Last updated: November 23,2024

1. Install "gnome-characters-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 gnome-characters-git on Arch using YAY

$ yay -S gnome-characters-git

* (Optional) Uninstall gnome-characters-git on Arch using YAY

$ yay -Rns gnome-characters-git

2. Manually Install "gnome-characters-git" via AUR

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

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

b. Clone gnome-characters-git's git locally

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

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

$ cd ~/gnome-characters-git $ makepkg -si

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

ID: 1281454
Name: gnome-characters-git
PackageBaseID: 138705
PackageBase: gnome-characters-git
Version: 44.0+31+g142609f-1
Description: A character map application
URL: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-characters
NumVotes: 2
Popularity: 0.141871
OutOfDate:
Maintainer: tallero
Submitter: rliang
FirstSubmitted: 1547293579
LastModified: 1688219292
URLPath: /cgit/aur.git/snapshot/gnome-characters-git.tar.gz