Editing pkgbuild files

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How do I set micro as the editor for pamac?

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What do you want to edit in pamac?

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pkgbuild files, purpose is setting another place for unreal, inside my home

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You're not actually changing pamac, you are just modifying text files. So,

  1. Either right click on the file and open with micro.
  2. Or use
micro <filename>
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This is my pamac file, but it's not working for GUI, let me try cli now:

File: /etc/pamac.conf
### Pamac configuration file

## When removing a package, also remove those dependencies
## that are not required by other packages (recurse option):
RemoveUnrequiredDeps

## How often to check for updates, value in hours (0 to disable):
RefreshPeriod = 6

## When there are no updates available, hide the tray icon:
NoUpdateHideIcon

## When applying updates, enable packages downgrade:
#EnableDowngrade

## Allow Pamac to search and install packages from AUR:
EnableAUR

## Keep built packages from AUR in cache after installation:
KeepBuiltPkgs

## When AUR support is enabled check for updates from AUR:
CheckAURUpdates

## When check updates from AUR support is enabled check for vcs updates:
CheckAURVCSUpdates

## AUR build directory:
BuildDirectory = /home/pamac

## Number of versions of each package to keep in the cache:
KeepNumPackages = 3

## Remove only the versions of uninstalled packages when clean cache:
OnlyRmUninstalled

## Download updates in background
#DownloadUpdates

## Maximum Parallel Downloads
MaxParallelDownloads = 4

#EnableFlatpak

#SimpleInstall

#CheckFlatpakUpdates

#EnableSnap
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Ok. Thisi s not the way (pkgbuild). Reverted

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What did not help? Fine, I will write the complete command

sudo micro /etc/pamac.conf
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Will that appear in the GUI?

permissions: drwxr-xr-x - root 20 May 15:23  pamac

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Just tell us what is it you want to change in Pamac?

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The build folder (inside /home)

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In changed it in /etc/pamac.conf

but something is not right

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It might be easier to just do that manually if you are changing the PKGBUILD anyway. Clone it from AUR, edit the PKGBUILD and run makepkg -Cris

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true that, This due to using beauricratic distro's for years I think. Arch is freedom! TY

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Still, I would like to do this anyways. I have a 250 GB and 1 TB home and the philosophy is doing less on / partition. I made the folder with root, still it doesn't work

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Which editor is currently being used as the default?

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nano editor is used in the CLI

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Which DE?
Xfce?
KDE use micro :smiley: IIRC.

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this are the permissions on /tmp drwxrwxrwt - root and this is on /home/makepkg drwxrwxrwx - root

The difference is that last "t"

ok did it, sudo chmod 1777 /home/makepkg

Now I can use it as build folder.

NOTE: I didn't mention that for me it seems if you don't change /etc/pkgbuild.conf too then the change in pamac don't work. But also you need the permission "t"

@SGS
I'm on KDE

UPDATE:

If I want to just change for one package build then the manual says : pamac install --buildir ~/pamac package

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