I've been distro hopping and found myself back on Manjaro and couldn't for the life of me remember how to do this! My brain was stuck on dpkg for some reason 😑
Could you elaborate on the -si argument(s) on what it does and why it's needed? 🙂
Hi Tim. Thank you for your commenting 🙂 Sorry for my late reply.
Haha. My case is similiar to yours: Manjaro -> Debian ->Artix (Arch-based). I have recently got familiar with pacman commands after all.
Could you elaborate on the -si argument(s) on what it does and why it's needed? 🙂
-s is shorthand for --syncdeps that means "To build the package and install needed dependencies".
-i is for --install.
-si means to build the package and then install it.
When what you want is just to build the package and not to install it, makepkg -s is useful.
When you have finished building the package, all you have to do is executing makepkg -i to install it.
Thanks for this!
I've been distro hopping and found myself back on Manjaro and couldn't for the life of me remember how to do this! My brain was stuck on dpkg for some reason 😑
Could you elaborate on the -si argument(s) on what it does and why it's needed? 🙂
Hi Tim. Thank you for your commenting 🙂 Sorry for my late reply.
Haha. My case is similiar to yours: Manjaro -> Debian ->Artix (Arch-based). I have recently got familiar with
pacmancommands after all.-sis shorthand for--syncdepsthat means "To build the package and install needed dependencies".-iis for--install.-simeans to build the package and then install it.When what you want is just to build the package and not to install it,
makepkg -sis useful.When you have finished building the package, all you have to do is executing
makepkg -ito install it.The documentations might help you: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Makepkg .
Hi Heddi
Thank you so much for taking the time to craft a really insightful and friendly response! :)
This makes tones more sense to me know - for some reason I was looking up "-si" as if it was one argument and not two arguments together 🙃
Hi, Tim. You're welcome.
I'm happy if it helped you in some way 😊