LARBS - Failed to install AUR helper

[NicholasasaurusRex]

Tried to install multiple times now. Same exit error.

LARBS fails to install the AUR helper and exits.

[NicholasasaurusRex]

I got a work around. But it's certainly not a fix for LARBS.

If you have come across this in frustration trying to install LARBS for the same reason

"Failed to install AUR Helper"

This maybe a work around untill the issue gets fixed. The Steps below will just have you install yay manually. Then rerun the script.

Step 1: Run the script: sh larbs.sh and let the script fail. Step 2: Added the newly created user you added from the script to the wheel group: usermod -aG wheel username Step 3: Install vi: pacman -S vi Step 4: Edit the sudoers file visudo /etc/sudoers Step 5: Uncomment this line: # %whell ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL Step 6: Switch from the root user to the new user. su username Step 7: Change home directories: cd Step 8: Goto the directory yay is installed: cd .local/src/yay Step 9: Install yay: makepkg -si Step 10: Type: exit Step 11: Now as the root user again, run: sh larbs.sh

[kam-daniel]

Thank you so much for creating this tutorial. I could not have continued with out your help!

[distress3]

I wonder is this issue is related to zsh and the PATH variable? When i followed Nicholas's instructions on how to bypass this issue, i first ran into problems with zsh not finding any commands. I had to run a bash prompt before i could do step 9.

[tlg-tg]

just install yay from source and then run the installer and make sure you have git installed

Tutorial:

sudo pacman -S git

cd /opt sudo git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay-git.git sudo chown -R user:user (your username) ./yay.git cd yay-git sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel makepkg -si

and now just cd into the dir where you have the install script and run it sudo ./larbs.sh

[N72826]

I got a work around. But it's certainly not a fix for LARBS.

If you have come across this in frustration trying to install LARBS for the same reason

"Failed to install AUR Helper"

This maybe a work around untill the issue gets fixed. The Steps below will just have you install yay manually. Then rerun the script.

Step 1: Run the script: sh larbs.sh and let the script fail. Step 2: Added the newly created user you added from the script to the wheel group: usermod -aG wheel username Step 3: Install vi: pacman -S vi Step 4: Edit the sudoers file visudo /etc/sudoers Step 5: Uncomment this line: # %whell ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL Step 6: Switch from the root user to the new user. su username Step 7: Change home directories: cd Step 8: Goto the directory yay is installed: cd .local/src/yay Step 9: Install yay: makepkg -si Step 10: Type: exit Step 11: Now as the root user again, run: sh larbs.sh

This works thank you kindly.

[ShahramMohammed]

I got a work around. But it's certainly not a fix for LARBS.

If you have come across this in frustration trying to install LARBS for the same reason

"Failed to install AUR Helper"

This maybe a work around untill the issue gets fixed. The Steps below will just have you install yay manually. Then rerun the script.

Step 1: Run the script: sh larbs.sh and let the script fail. Step 2: Added the newly created user you added from the script to the wheel group: usermod -aG wheel username Step 3: Install vi: pacman -S vi Step 4: Edit the sudoers file visudo /etc/sudoers Step 5: Uncomment this line: # %whell ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL Step 6: Switch from the root user to the new user. su username Step 7: Change home directories: cd Step 8: Goto the directory yay is installed: cd .local/src/yay Step 9: Install yay: makepkg -si Step 10: Type: exit Step 11: Now as the root user again, run: sh larbs.sh

This worked but only after rebooting, otherwise X server would crash on user login

[fennomaani]

https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/LARBS/blob/3f593b62975009a0b143f3557620f4287938c0c0/static/larbs.sh#L111

Removing -D "$repodir/$1" fixed the issue for me.

[bybv]

Why is this issue closed? Doing a fresh install with the script causes the error as yay is not installed, and it seems to require the workaround that @NicholasasaurusRex mentions, which is not elegant.

Thank you!

[fennomaani]

@bybv See my earlier comment, the -D option doesn't work for some reason, but it can be removed since we already cd'd to the working directory earlier