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I have a noob question, but how do proprietary apps (IE: Slack) make it onto the AUR without having an official binary?
by Harrrr 6y ago
I have a noob question, but how do proprietary apps (IE: Slack) make it onto the AUR without having an official binary?
- detaro 6y agoBoth Slack and Spotify do provide Linux versions, even if not/less supported officially.
- Harrrr 6y agoThanks! I hadn't tried Arch yet, but I just saw the pkgbuild script on the site (didn't know it was there) and it makes since now :)
- dialamac 6y agoThere’s nothing to really block much on the aur. There are some guidelines in naming and no duplicates, no maliciousness etc that are enforced, but that’s it. But anyone can upload a build script (PKGBUILD) for anything. If you want to see how it’s done search the package name and AUR and you can see the build script right on the website.
- Harrrr 6y agoTIL! Thank you :)
- kmarc 6y agoThere are many PKGBUILDs on AUR that cactually download rpm / deb packages and unpack the binaries and deps from it.