Error target not found yaourt

Hello,

I installed a few packages (package-query and yaourt at least) from AUR. I cannot see these packages with pacman and yaourt is not working properly. I’m trying to remove with:

But it gives the error

error: target not found: yaourt

However, typing

gives:

yaourt 1.8.1
homepage: http://archlinux.fr/yaourt-en

Is there a way for me to see these «hidden» packages, and more importantly to remove them? I’ve tried the commands from the wiki already and a few of the methods listed on the forums. Can’t seem to even find people that are sharing this issue yet.

Thank you

Last edited by victoroux (2016-03-11 20:24:03)

Are you sure they are packages? You haven’t done something daft like install them with ‘./configure; make; sudo make install’?

If you haven’t done that, then perhaps you have a similarly named package (e.g. yoaurt-git). Check what pacman knows about with, e.g. ‘pacman -Qs yaourt’.

Also check what owns the yaourt binary with ‘pacman -Qo $(which yaourt)’

Last edited by WorMzy (2016-03-11 20:10:03)

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There is no such thing as «hidden» packages.  Clearly yaourt exists on your system, and just as clearly, it is not in pacman’s database.  Either ‘yaourt’ is not the exact package name, or you installed yaourt in a way that circumvented pacman.

To check the former, try either of the following (or both):

pacman -Qs yaourt
pacman -Qm

To remove a package you need the full package name.  This might be yaourt-git, for example.

If you installed yaourt circumventing pacman then there is no easy way to clean up the mess.  You’d have to find every file installed and remove them yourself.  We *might* be able to help with this if you tell us exactly how you installed it in the first place.

«UNIX is simple and coherent…» — Dennis Ritchie, «GNU’s Not UNIX» —  Richard Stallman

Haven’t used Arch in 3 years, was on a fresh system. I did indeed fuck up and go the way of ./configure make install. I’ll simply re-install arch clean. Was still figuring out how to use AUR packages for the first time. Learned about makepkg -sri afterwards. Now I have an even better understanding of how it all works. Thank you, all

Out of curiousity, where exactly did the package install to? I deleted the home directory in which I configured/built all the other packages and where yaourt was also make installed.

«UNIX is simple and coherent…» — Dennis Ritchie, «GNU’s Not UNIX» —  Richard Stallman

Reinstalling Arch Linux is unnecessary, you can easily determine the files yaourt has installed by reading the Makefile or replaying the installation target in a separate DESTDIR and simply remove the respective files, it’s possible to methodically double check your actions along the way too.

[n.b. The de-facto standard in Makefiles is that the PREFIX is set to /usr/local so it is quite likely to have installed there, package managers as a policy tend to not touch that directory as it’s for use by local admins.]

pacman -Qo is the principle way of determining file ownership which can be used to find potentially orphaned files but you have to be careful about «ghost files», as in my previous post.

The general rule is that all files under / should be owned by a package, outside of ghost files other exceptions to this rule include /home, /usr/local, and the pseudo-filesystems such as /proc.

Last edited by Earnestly (2016-03-11 20:50:29)

What is the yaourt command you run ?
If AUR/network is unavailable when you run yaourt -S aur-package, you can have this error message.

Something like: yaourt -Syu —noconfirm

I have a similar problem, but I definitely have network access and aur is available as well.
Yaourt is the latest version (1.7) from AUR.

$ LC_ALL=C yaourt codelite
1 aur/codelite 8.1-1 (109)
    Open-source, cross platform IDE for the C/C++ programming languages
2 aur/codelite-bin 8.1-2 (17)
    Open-source, cross platform IDE for the C/C++ programming languages
3 aur/codelite-git 8.0.1.r162.g36ea786-1 (10)
    Open-source, cross platform IDE for the C/C++ programming languages
==> Enter n° of packages to be installed (ex: 1 2 3 or 1-3)
==> --------------------------------------------------------
==> 1


==> Downloading codelite PKGBUILD from AUR...
==> ERROR: codelite not found in AUR.

HelgeS, that’s interesting — your command is working fine for me:

$ yaourt codelite
1 aur/codelite 8.1-1 (109)
Open-source, cross platform IDE for the C/C++ programming languages
2 aur/codelite-bin 8.1-2 (17)
Open-source, cross platform IDE for the C/C++ programming languages
3 aur/codelite-git 8.0.1.r162.g36ea786-1 (10)
Open-source, cross platform IDE for the C/C++ programming languages
==> Enter n° of packages to be installed (ex: 1 2 3 or 1-3)
==> ——————————————————-
==> 1

==> Downloading codelite PKGBUILD from AUR…
x .SRCINFO
x PKGBUILD

Maybe it is because of the latest update but now it is working properly. Sorry for the late reply.

I am closing this now.