spectre-meltdown-checker on AUR (Arch User Repository)

Last updated: December 29,2024

1. Install "spectre-meltdown-checker" 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 spectre-meltdown-checker on Arch using YAY


    
        
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                yay -S
            
                        
                spectre-meltdown-checker
            
                    
    
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* (Optional) Uninstall spectre-meltdown-checker on Arch using YAY


    
        
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                yay -Rns
            
                        
                spectre-meltdown-checker
            
                    
    
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2. Manually Install "spectre-meltdown-checker" 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 spectre-meltdown-checker's git locally


    
        
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                git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/spectre-meltdown-checker.git 
            
                        
                ~/spectre-meltdown-checker
            
                    
    
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c. Go to ~/spectre-meltdown-checker folder and install it


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

ID: 1301198
Name: spectre-meltdown-checker
PackageBaseID: 129219
PackageBase: spectre-meltdown-checker
Version: 0.46-1
Description: Spectre, Meltdown, Foreshadow, Fallout, RIDL, ZombieLoad vulnerability/mitigation checker
URL: https://github.com/speed47/spectre-meltdown-checker
NumVotes: 80
Popularity: 0.146614
OutOfDate:
Maintainer: iyanmv
Submitter: simon04
FirstSubmitted: 1516026978
LastModified: 1691570297
URLPath: /cgit/aur.git/snapshot/spectre-meltdown-checker.tar.gz