surface-control-bin on AUR (Arch User Repository)

Last updated: December 26,2024

1. Install "surface-control-bin" 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 surface-control-bin on Arch using YAY


    
        
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                yay -S
            
                        
                surface-control-bin
            
                    
    
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* (Optional) Uninstall surface-control-bin on Arch using YAY


    
        
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                yay -Rns
            
                        
                surface-control-bin
            
                    
    
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2. Manually Install "surface-control-bin" 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 surface-control-bin's git locally


    
        
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                git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/surface-control-bin.git 
            
                        
                ~/surface-control-bin
            
                    
    
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c. Go to ~/surface-control-bin folder and install it


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

ID: 1427354
Name: surface-control-bin
PackageBaseID: 144933
PackageBase: surface-control-bin
Version: 0.4.6-3
Description: Control various aspects of Microsoft Surface devices from the Command-Line
URL: https://github.com/linux-surface/surface-control
NumVotes: 1
Popularity: 0
OutOfDate:
Maintainer: qzed
Submitter: qzed
FirstSubmitted: 1568002878
LastModified: 1710454661
URLPath: /cgit/aur.git/snapshot/surface-control-bin.tar.gz