sdate on AUR (Arch User Repository)

Last updated: January 23,2025

1. Install "sdate" 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 sdate on Arch using YAY

* (Optional) Uninstall sdate on Arch using YAY

2. Manually Install "sdate" 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 sdate's git locally


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


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

ID: 747785
Name: sdate
PackageBaseID: 148286
PackageBase: sdate
Version: 0.7-1
Description: Wrapper program to output the eternal September 1993 date.
URL: http://www.df7cb.de/projects/sdate/
NumVotes: 3
Popularity: 0.300337
OutOfDate:
Maintainer: hv15
Submitter: hv15
FirstSubmitted: 1579339794
LastModified: 1591429474
URLPath: /cgit/aur.git/snapshot/sdate.tar.gz