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Installing Meteor on Arch Linux

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Why in the heck would he do all this instead of using the AUR? Is this guy an arch user? This is an incredibly silly way to do this and a good way to cause issues later on as you try to upgrade the package.

been using arch for a while and have always wondered whether there's a good utility to grab a .deb package and install it (including all the dependencies -- from AUR, when possible)?

Nine times out of ten I'd say you could probably just install from the AUR. If not I doubt you could do so programatically, because the names might not be the same.

Not only are the names not the same, but the way the packages are split differs. For instance, Debian/Ubuntu will give the end-user "somepackage", but the developer needs to also install "somepackage-dev". In Arch, the -dev stuff is included in the end-user package.

the thing is, in india when trying to see the screencast (http://meteor.com/screencast), i get this :

"This website/URL has been blocked until further notice either pursuant to Court orders or on the Directions issued by the Department of Telecommunications"

pathetic.

http://www.isup.me/meteor.com says its down for others too.

I don't think its because of Telecom Dept.

@signa11 I downloaded the screencast your government is filtering, and re-uploaded it here: http://ompldr.org/vZTNyZw/MeteorJS.mp4 I hope the MeteorJS guys don't mind me doing this, it's for a good cause.

Meteor is already available on AUR: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=58394

Using the AUR is of course preferable, but in his defense, the AUR package has been flagged as out of date and has the wrong dependencies (as per the comments).

Of course, this can be fixed by editing the PKGBUILD with your favorite AUR helper. For instance, yaourt (the one I've used for a while now) prompts you to edit the PKGBUILD on every package you try to install... and it displays the most recent comments on that package, so I'd notice that nodejs was a requirement.

But if you're not comfortable with PKGBUILDs and the like, I can see trying some alternate route when you notice that the AUR is out of date.

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