speedometer on AUR (Arch User Repository)

Last updated: December 24,2024

1. Install "speedometer" 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 speedometer on Arch using YAY


    
        
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                yay -S
            
                        
                speedometer
            
                    
    
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* (Optional) Uninstall speedometer on Arch using YAY


    
        
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                yay -Rns
            
                        
                speedometer
            
                    
    
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2. Manually Install "speedometer" 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 speedometer's git locally


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


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

ID: 1211886
Name: speedometer
PackageBaseID: 99862
PackageBase: speedometer
Version: 2.9-2
Description: Measure and display the rate of data across a network connection or data being stored in a file
URL: http://excess.org/speedometer/
NumVotes: 64
Popularity: 0.012275
OutOfDate:
Maintainer: willemw
Submitter: willemw
FirstSubmitted: 1442079925
LastModified: 1676540498
URLPath: /cgit/aur.git/snapshot/speedometer.tar.gz