What I’m trying to install is Resilio sync, but I’ve come across an error that I’ve found no answer for.
The salient commands run are:
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/rslsync.git
makepkg
sudo pacman -U rslsync
The last of which failed, giving this message:
loading packages...
error: could not open file rslsync: Error reading fd 7
error: 'rslsync': cannot open package file
I’m assuming the former error caused the latter error.
Not quite.
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/rslsync.git
cd rslsync
makepkg -srcif
See
Even if you built it successfully, that won’t work because that’s not the filename. It would be something like rslsync-2.7.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst. In my example above the makepkg -i flag installs it, so a separate step is not needed.
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