wbg on AUR (Arch User Repository)

Last updated: November 14,2024

1. Install "wbg" effortlessly via AUR with the help of a helper(YAY)

a. Install YAY (https://github.com/Jguer/yay)

$ sudo pacman -S --needed git base-devel && git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git && cd yay && makepkg -si

b. Install wbg on Arch using YAY

$ yay -S wbg

* (Optional) Uninstall wbg on Arch using YAY

$ yay -Rns wbg

2. Manually Install "wbg" via AUR

a. Ensure you have the base development tools and git installed with:

$ sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel git

b. Clone wbg's git locally

$ git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/wbg.git ~/wbg

c. Go to ~/wbg folder and install it

$ cd ~/wbg $ makepkg -si

3. Information about the wbg package on Arch User Repository (AUR)

ID: 1418861
Name: wbg
PackageBaseID: 163790
PackageBase: wbg
Version: 1.1.0-5
Description: Wallpaper application for wlroots based Wayland compositors
URL: https://codeberg.org/dnkl/wbg
NumVotes: 6
Popularity: 1.566982
OutOfDate:
Maintainer: danekl
Submitter: danekl
FirstSubmitted: 1614334488
LastModified: 1709291184
URLPath: /cgit/aur.git/snapshot/wbg.tar.gz

5. The same packages on other Linux Distributions