Archlinux AUR

PREAMBLE

Tutorial expresses the author's subjective ideas and conform to AAL license.

Description

Install and configure Arch User Repository (AUR) tool HOW-TO.

Intro

Train step by step performing commands below.

Next Level

First, we need to be sure that system includes all necessary tools to perform building process

# pacman -Syu

After that we need to install git

# pacman -S git base-devel

Doing that, you can clone desired AUR package

$ git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/gnuclad.git

Move to the folder and start make process

$ cd gnuclad

$ make

Once the process is complete, ensure that you have in your directory a TAR.GZ or TAR.XZ file and install it using pacman

$ ls -lh

# pacman -U gnuclad-0.1.2.3.tar.gz

OR

$ makepkg -sri

To remove package and it it's dependencies use 

# pacman -Rs gnuclad

To periodically update package you must repeat steps starting with cloning the repository. 

If you didn't deleted directory, navigate to it and run

$ git pull

And after that

$ makepkg -sri

And so on ...

YAY - Yet another Yogurt

$ cd ~

$ git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git

$ cd yay

$ makepkg -sri

Run it

$ yay

List packages that require an update

$ yay -Pu

Install some

$ yay -S freeoffice

Last thoughts

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