platformfolders on AUR (Arch User Repository)

Last updated: November 07,2024

1. Install "platformfolders" 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 platformfolders on Arch using YAY

$ yay -S platformfolders

* (Optional) Uninstall platformfolders on Arch using YAY

$ yay -Rns platformfolders

2. Manually Install "platformfolders" via AUR

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

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

b. Clone platformfolders's git locally

$ git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/platformfolders.git ~/platformfolders

c. Go to ~/platformfolders folder and install it

$ cd ~/platformfolders $ makepkg -si

3. Information about the platformfolders package on Arch User Repository (AUR)

ID: 1032791
Name: platformfolders
PackageBaseID: 132084
PackageBase: platformfolders
Version: 4.2.0-1
Description: A C++ library to look for special directories like "My Documents" and "%APPDATA%" so that you do not need to write Linux, Windows and Mac OS X specific code
URL: https://github.com/sago007/PlatformFolders
NumVotes: 1
Popularity: 0
OutOfDate:
Maintainer: sum01
Submitter: sum01
FirstSubmitted: 1525400673
LastModified: 1644199828
URLPath: /cgit/aur.git/snapshot/platformfolders.tar.gz

5. The same packages on other Linux Distributions