[DOC] `pacman` doesn't work without sudo

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[DOC] `pacman` doesn't work without sudo #348

Closed NightMachinery closed 5 months ago

NightMachinery commented 5 months ago

When I followed the instructions in the readme, pacman complained about needing to be run with sudo.

So I defined this alias:

alias sudo-junest="${HOME}/.junest/usr/bin_wrappers/sudo"

and used sudo-junest pacman ..., which worked.

Is this the intended way to use junest? Anyhow, the docs probably need a fix, as they don't work as they are.

fsquillace commented 5 months ago

Please follow https://github.com/fsquillace/junest/blob/4d2d0fcb840d9266a39deb0acf2afc44973bf5f3/CONTRIBUTING.md

Can you provide the exact section in readme that does not work? What are the exact steps you run?

NightMachinery commented 5 months ago

The exact place that does not work is here:

https://github.com/fsquillace/junest#install-packages-from-aur
```
pacman -S base-devel
```

This results in the following error:

❯ pacman -S base-devel

error: you cannot perform this operation unless you are root.

After looking through the other sections of the readme, I think you already have a sudoj which is almost the same as my alias sudo-junest. So the lines of the readme that use pacman should also include sudoj.

fsquillace commented 5 months ago

Usage of sudo is not required and depends on which backend is being used. -f mode does not need sudo for instance.