Cannot install yay/pakku as AUR helper in WSL1

[dtantono]

Hi
I tried to install aur helper. But, it does not work. What do you think?

[vineelsai26]

Jguer/yay#1227 try this

[dtantono]

hold on, So, this problem only happens on WSL1. is that so?

[vineelsai26]

seems like it, I was able to replicate it as well on WSL 1

[dtantono]

Ok, that will be quite long and I want to make sure. So, to sum up the current workaround is:

1. cd /tmp
2. wget http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/f/fakeroot/fakeroot_1.31.orig.tar.gz
3. ./bootstrap
4. ./configure — prefix=/opt/fakeroot --libdir=/opt/fakeroot/libs --disable-static --with-ipc=tcp
5. make
6. sudo make install
7. export PATH="/opt/fakeroot/bin:$PATH"
8. git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
9. cd yay
10. makepkg -si
11. yay -Syu fakeroot-tcp
    Is that so?

[vineelsai26]

You have to try that for yourself I mostly use Windows only on VMs these days so it would take too much time to validate it, so if you don't want to do the whole ordeal I guess you can download yay from my repo and just do the last step - https://github.com/vineelsai26/repo/tree/main/linux/arch/x86_64

[dtantono]

Hold on, Sorry, what is the right command?

[dtantono]

Sorry for multiple response. But, it seems it does not worked

[vineelsai26]

You have to get it with raw link if you directly use GitHub link it will download a web page. use this link to download https://github.com/vineelsai26/repo/raw/main/linux/arch/x86_64/yay-12.2.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

[dtantono]

Yeah, I can install yay with that file. But, yay cannot install other aur helper and other cli apps with same error. What do you think?

[vineelsai26]

did you install fakeroot-tcp? if not try that, if that didn't work you have to install this version of fakeroot and then install fakeroot-tcp

Ok, that will be quite long and I want to make sure. So, to sum up the current workaround is:

1. cd /tmp
2. wget http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/f/fakeroot/fakeroot_1.31.orig.tar.gz
3. ./bootstrap
4. ./configure — prefix=/opt/fakeroot --libdir=/opt/fakeroot/libs --disable-static --with-ipc=tcp
5. make
6. sudo make install
7. export PATH="/opt/fakeroot/bin:$PATH"
8. git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
9. cd yay
10. makepkg -si
11. yay -Syu fakeroot-tcp
    Is that so?

[dtantono]

Hi
I did it for fakeroot-tcp with pacman. But, since it is not pacman. I tried it on AUR for fakeroot-tcp. But, the fakeroot-tcp is not working well.

[vineelsai26]

then I guess try the steps mentioned in the issue

Jguer/yay#1227 try this

[vineelsai26]

any reason why you are not using WSL 2?

[dtantono]

Yeah I did that workaround. and I got new error again. The reason I stick to WSL 1 because it use hyper v and it is interrupt my virtualisation programs.

[vineelsai26]

Ok, that will be quite long and I want to make sure. So, to sum up the current workaround is:

1. cd /tmp
2. wget http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/f/fakeroot/fakeroot_1.31.orig.tar.gz
3. ./bootstrap
4. ./configure — prefix=/opt/fakeroot --libdir=/opt/fakeroot/libs --disable-static --with-ipc=tcp
5. make
6. sudo make install
7. export PATH="/opt/fakeroot/bin:$PATH"
8. git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
9. cd yay
10. makepkg -si
11. yay -Syu fakeroot-tcp
    Is that so?

4th step is probably supposed to be ./configure --prefix=/opt/fakeroot --libdir=/opt/fakeroot/libs --disable-static --with-ipc=tcp not ./configure — prefix=/opt/fakeroot --libdir=/opt/fakeroot/libs --disable-static --with-ipc=tcp

[dtantono]

Hi
I checked this issue and I found this (https://wsldl-pg.github.io/ArchW-docs/Known-issues/) I need to run this command
wget https://github.com/yuk7/arch-prebuilt/releases/download/18082100/fakeroot-tcp-1.23-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
and sudo pacman -U fakeroot-tcp-1.23-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
to make it work

So, I hope you can update faq. if the problem arises