Cannot install ccm

[mzryz]

Hi, I am on Manjaro-unstable and I need ccm to install some packages, but I cannot get ccm to install

Typing in sudo pamac build clean-chroot-mananger gets me:

Error: Failed to prepare transaction:
could not satisfy dependencies:
- unable to satisfy dependency 'devtools>=1:1.0.0-1' required by clean-chroot-manager

I've tried installing devtools-git, devtools, and devtools32-git (all at different times, just to try different versions, through pamac) but each time I get this error trying to install ccm.

If I install devtools-git it says it's installed:

Installing devtools-git (1:1.2.0.r1.gd1790c2-1) 
Transaction successfully finished.

Could anyone point out what I'm doing wrong? I realise I'm installing a newer version. But the dependency is greater or equal to right? Thank you

[graysky2]

No idea about Manjaro. Works fine on Arch. Guessing that they are using a different version numbering than Arch is for devtools. Just edit the PKGBUILD and remove the version on the depends of devtools and see if it builds.

[mzryz]

@graysky2 Is there any chance you could be a bit more descriptive for me. Sorry for the trouble! I'm used to building stuff by doing configure / make / install. When downloading the source code for ccm I'm presented with a Makefile. When I type 'make' it tells me 'Setting version' but I don't know what to do. The readme doesn't seem to include any installation instructions.

[graysky2]

If you're using Arch or Manjaro (Arch clone) you are doing yourself a huge disservice by compiling without a PKGBUILD for the software you want. See the needed files in the AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/clean-chroot-manager

You build with makepkg and then install the package you made with pacman just like all the official packages. Makes for a much cleaner and maintainable filesystem.

More to read:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_build_system

[mzryz]

Ok I will close the thread, it's all a bit too daunting for me. Hopefully one day ccm can be in the standard repos, so that simple folk like me can install it easily. Thank you for the guidance.

[graysky2]

Dude, it's dead simple.

1. Download the tarball I linked and untar it
2. cd into the directory you untarred
3. type makepkg -srci

[mzryz]

@graysky2 - sorry for this, I tried that but I'm told:

~/clean-chroot-manager-2.226 makepkg -srci                      
==> ERROR: PKGBUILD does not exist.

I looked for what this means online, it says I'm missing a package build file. But I don't know how to make that and I can't seem to find out what to do.

[graysky2]

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/clean-chroot-manager <-- click download snapshot

untar that and cd into the dir

[mzryz]

Thank you @graysky2 I now have ccm installed, thanks for your patience.