Makepkg

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makepkg is a script to automate the building of packages. The requirements for using the script are a build-capable Unix platform and a PKGBUILD.

makepkg is provided by the pacman package.

Simple build command

$ makepkg -si

• -i: Install package after successful build
• -s: Install missing dependencies with pacman

See also

• Arch Linux
• Arch Build System (ABS; abs)
• Arch User Repository (AUR; aur)
• pacman
• PKGBUILD

Favorite site

• makepkg - ArchWiki