Translations:Create Manjaro Packages/18/en
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When you run makepkg, it will look for a PKGBUILD file in the present working directory. If a PKGBUILD file is found it will download the software's source code and compile it according to the instructions specified in the PKGBUILD file. The instructions must be fully interpretable by the Bash shell. After successful completion, the resulting binaries and metadata of the package (package version and dependencies,) are packed in a pkgname.pkg.tar.xz package file that can be installed with pacman -U <package file>.