surface-uefi-firmware-git on AUR (Arch User Repository)

Last updated: December 29,2024

1. Install "surface-uefi-firmware-git" 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-uefi-firmware-git on Arch using YAY


    
        
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                yay -S
            
                        
                surface-uefi-firmware-git
            
                    
    
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* (Optional) Uninstall surface-uefi-firmware-git on Arch using YAY


    
        
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                yay -Rns
            
                        
                surface-uefi-firmware-git
            
                    
    
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2. Manually Install "surface-uefi-firmware-git" 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-uefi-firmware-git's git locally


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


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

ID: 872045
Name: surface-uefi-firmware-git
PackageBaseID: 163966
PackageBase: surface-uefi-firmware-git
Version: r11.ad1a6ae-1
Description: Scripts to prepare UEFI firmware updates for Microsoft Surface
URL: https://github.com/linux-surface/surface-uefi-firmware
NumVotes: 1
Popularity: 0
OutOfDate: 1659988419
Maintainer:
Submitter: SamLukeYes
FirstSubmitted: 1614787052
LastModified: 1614787052
URLPath: /cgit/aur.git/snapshot/surface-uefi-firmware-git.tar.gz