Noob: Installing programs not in repository?

[evanl81]

Hi,

Pardon my ignorance - this is my first time browsing these forums. I was planning on buying a pogoplug today, but it has to be able to run Couch Potato (http://couchpotatoapp.com). I just want to make sure I understand correctly: with Arch Linux ARM, can I only install applications that are within the repository, or can I install "external" programs as well? If anyone knows the answer to this, I'd be very grateful.

Thanks.

[Frex]

You can install every program that you can build from source. BTW CouchPotato appears to be in the AUR(Arch User Repository).

[kmihelich]

It's available in our repo, the package is couchpotato-git. You can just pacman -S couchpotato-git

In general, if you find some package we don't already have and would like to see it in the repo, submit an issue on the github tracker at https://github.com/Arch Linux ARM/Arch Linux ARM/issues requesting the package, and we'll get it compiled and packaged.

[evanl81]

Thanks very much for the replies. Guess I just didn't look hard enough.