Target not Found: Not Able to Install Packages in Arch Linux

Question

I tried to install several packages on Arch Linux on Docker. Here is the steps:

docker run -it --rm archlinux
pacman -Syu --noconfirm
pacman -S bwidget

All I got is

[root@d2102c694f15 /]# pacman -S bwidget
error: target not found: bwidget

Although, I can see that bwidget is available in Arch Linux repository ( https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bwidget/ ).

This happens also for other packages like udunits , jags , v8 , and some others.

Any idea why this is happening?

Answer 1

I was wrong, I thought https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bwidget/ is the official repository. It is not. To install from https://aur.archlinux.org/ , one needs to do the steps written in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository#Installing_packages