yaourt destination directory is incorrectly set

[shawngraham]

so I thought, I'll give R a spin....

pacman -S R result:

pacman target not found
pacman failed to init transaction
unable to lock database could not lock database: File exists

[shawngraham]

ah lord, it's lowercase r...

[shawngraham]

speaking of R, yaourt rstudio-desktop.bin seems to do nothing, but yaourt rstudio-desktop will give me the option of getting it; then it asks if i want to edit the pkgbuild (i say no), then 'you do not have write premission to store packages in /home/packages'

[shawngraham]

ah, ok - i had to cd up to the home directory (i was confused by dh-usb/home; needed to be at home/dh-usb ; then I made a packages directory, and gave it permissions with sudo chmod -R 777 packages; then yaourt rstudio etc works!

[JonathanReeve]

Thanks for the help testing all these commands! This is super helpful. I'll have to change the instructions to reflect the lowercase R. Rstudio should be installable with yaourt rstudio-desktop-bin (note the hyphen). You can get it to be silent about asking you if you want to edit pkgbuilds and stuff with yaourt -S --noconfirm rstudio-desktop-bin. I'll change the instructions to reflect that.

That's strange about yaourt complaining about /home/dh-usb/packages. I think my custom yaourt config might be causing that. I put in a custom yaourt config in order to install AUR packages during install, but then I forgot to switch it back to default once that install is complete. I'll open a new issue for this. Thanks!