1. I couldn't seem to download the source from the PKBUILD, so I tried changing the URL to be more similar to other packages. It worked and passed the checksum also: #source=('http://superb-dca2.dl.sourceforge.net/project/libvterm/libvterm-0.99.7.tar.gz') source=('http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/libvterm/libvterm-0.99.7.tar.gz') # Changed: superb-dca2.dl TO downloads 2. For some reason, the pkg installed no files. I compared it to other PKBUILDs and the variables were different, so I made them the same: # install -m644 -D vterm.h $startdir/pkg/usr/include/vterm.h || return 1 # install -m755 -D libvterm.so $startdir/pkg/usr/lib/libvterm.so || return 1 install -m644 -D vterm.h $pkgdir/usr/include/vterm.h || return 1 install -m755 -D libvterm.so $pkgdir/usr/lib/libvterm.so || return 1 # Changed: $startdir/pkg/ TO $pkgdir/ in both lines. After these two changes, I was finally able to build the "vwm" pkg which depends on this one. :)

I adopted this and updated it using your diff...

Here's a unified diff to fix some breakage probably caused by makepkg changes. --- PKGBUILD.old 2014-03-29 01:13:50.523974423 -0700 +++ PKGBUILD 2014-03-29 01:18:36.311934887 -0700 @@ -7,14 +7,17 @@ url="http://libvterm.sourceforge.net" license=('GPLv2') source=('http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/libvterm/libvterm-0.99.7.tar.gz') +md5sums=('ac68b77eb33086f7532ab303245efb77') build() { cd "$srcdir/$pkgname" make || return 1 - install -m644 -D vterm.h $startdir/pkg/usr/include/vterm.h || return 1 - install -m755 -D libvterm.so $startdir/pkg/usr/lib/libvterm.so || return 1 - } -md5sums=('ac68b77eb33086f7532ab303245efb77') +package() { + cd "$srcdir/$pkgname" + install -m644 -D vterm.h $pkgdir/usr/include/vterm.h || return 1 + install -m755 -D libvterm.so $pkgdir/usr/lib/libvterm.so || return 1 +} +