[SOLVED] makepkg not working

[zealous wigeon]

Hi guys, makepkg is not working right now:

• I try to makepkg -si as a user, tells me 'I do not have write permission

• OK, I'll switch to root: 'running makepkg as root is not allowed as it can cause permanent damage to your system'

How am I supposed to use makepkg??

[placid shuttle]

can you share pwd?

nevermind, I see it in the first error

pacman -S --needed base-devel git
any of those not installed already?

[zealous wigeon]

Those are installed already

[placid shuttle]

That’s weird, check the perms of the directory?

[zealous wigeon]

that was it. I needed to chown the directory to my normal username

[SOLVED] makepkg not working

[placid shuttle]

Why wasn’t it already under your user though?

[zealous wigeon]

I have no idea, It told me I have no write permissions, when I did ls -l it showed me 'root', then I decided to chown

[placid shuttle]

how did you make your home directory?

[zealous wigeon]

I didn't make it manually afaik

Also, now I'm running into a new problem; makepkg -si gives me error:

"ERROR: A failure occurred in build()
Aborting... "

[placid shuttle]

Can you do ls ~/ and see if Documents, Downloads, Pictures, Videos etc, are there?

[zealous wigeon]

here..

.bash_history, .bash_logout, .bash_profile, .bashrc, .cache, .config, .local, .viminfo, .Xauthority, yay

[placid shuttle]

Yeah you’ve made your home directory manually by the looks of things

.aw installation_guide

[minor canopy]

Installation guide

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Installation_guide

[placid shuttle]

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/General_recommendations#User_directories

[placid shuttle]

Here’s how you should have done it

[zealous wigeon]

Oh damn

Can I still fix makepkg tho?

[placid shuttle]

I mean I don’t know why it’s failing, but my guess is you want to remake your home directory

[zealous wigeon]

I view my ~ directory as root, now it shows me a downloads folder

[hallow wyvern]

how?
did you sudo git clone lmao

[placid shuttle]

I think their home dir perms are under root, so, to clone I'm guessing they had to sudo XD

[zealous wigeon]

yeah I was root

[tidal jewel]

why?

[zealous wigeon]

Was I not supposed to?

[placid shuttle]

aur packages are only meant to be installed by the user, not the root