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well done! glad it works for you now.

Thanks tomracing, I've got it now. You made me look to my .makepkg.conf file and I have there a line [# BUILDDIR=/tmp/makepkg]. I had to comment out this line and now I can get smath installed trough yaourt. I do not really understand why smath does not work with my BUILDDIR in tmp but other yaourt stuff works.

xxx, sorry i cannot reproduce your error. I've had no issue with installing smath on a clean manjaro vm. only installed based-devel yaourt then yaourt -S smath got no errors there. therefore pretty sure it is not the package.

Thanks tomracing for looking into it. I tried to install smath trough yaourt on 3 different computers with the same error, '../smath.desktop': No such file or directory. I got it to install by first cloning the official URL and overwriting the files there with the files so kindly provided by Jack here https://github.com/Jakeler/AUR-PKGBUILDS/tree/master/smath The official package does not work. I am using Manjaro, I do not think that will make any difference though.

Sorry to hear that it is not working for you XXX. however I've just tried building it using several popular aur helpers and all worked fine. If you build by downloading the pkgbuild file directly, then please note that in the root are several other files that will be needed to install. https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/?h=smath

If after thay it still doesn't work let me know.

Any bad package should be moved out, in a sandbox or something. For quite a while now I am not able to install this one.

install: cannot stat '../smath.desktop': No such file or directory ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package(). Aborting... ==> ERROR: Makepkg was unable to build smath.

great, it worked for me also this morning. Thanks for testing. the pkgbuild is cleaned up now and as far as I can tell the files don't even need mentioning in the source. Should be good to go for the future and much easier to update. thanks again for the solution.

Now uncomment the sources (make sure the braces are correct) and it is complete ;) You can try my version from yesterday here: https://github.com/Jakeler/AUR-PKGBUILDS/tree/master/smath

It works for me with the the .desktop, i can send you a PKGBUILD if you want. Downloading the icon pack is a bit of a problem, because this needs a different id... but i think dropbox (or adding it directly to the sources / aur repo) is fine for a simple png. btw: i would supply the start script also as file, instead of this multiple line echo pipe trick.

Jake, Cool! That works and I can get the main file downloaded directly from the web now. Just have to pop into a Arch irc channel one of these days to see if i can get some help to complete the PKGBUILD. I think the %u in the dlagents follows all three sources and those don't need the http post procedure yet. Will have to find a way to fix that or change the way to get the .desktop and the icon. So for now won't post that pkgbuild yet as it is broken. pkg still works as it is now. looking forward to complete this though.