AUR Helpers

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This is a list of AUR helper command line tools that search and/or build packages from the Arch User Repository. None of these tools are officially supported. Yaourt is one of the most commonly used AUR helpers.

A list of GUI pacman frontends, some of which also work with the AUR, may be found in Pacman GUI Frontends

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arson

Arson is an AUR searcher and downloader, written in Ruby. It allows you to search the AUR for a package you want, and download it. It does NOT automatically install the downloaded package. It can extract it, but not install. Searching for a package also searches through pacman's db cache (rather than going to each mirror and querying those).

aurbuild

AURBuild is a tool written in Python to download and build packages from the AUR.

aurget

aurget aims to be a simple, pacman-like interface to the AUR. It tries to make the AUR convenient; whether the user wishes to find, download, build, install, or update AUR packages quickly.

aurploader

Aurploader prompts the user for an AUR name and password and will then upload passed AUR tarballs to the AUR. Before uploading each package, the user is prompted to select a category. When the uploads have completed, the user is asked if the cookie file should be kept so that the script can be run again without needing the AUR name and password to be re-entered.

aurshell

Aurshell is a shell written in Python. With plugins included, it's possible to use AUR, ABS and even wrap pacman.

autoaur

Autoaur is a script for automatic mass downloading, updating, building, and installing groups of AUR packages.

haskell-archlinux

haskell-archlinux is a library to programmatically access AUR and package metadata from the Haskell programming language.

makeaur

Makeaur is a wrapper for pacman and makepkg that allows users to easily install packages from the Arch User Repository.

makerepo

Makerepo is a tool to simplify building and maintaining a repository. A simple configuration file is use to specify the basic arguments such as database name and directory, package lists, etc. Makerepo is able to build packages from the AUR and from local PKG‐BUILDS such as the ABS tree. It can even build pkgs from CPAN modules if pacpan is installed.

pbget

Pbget is a simple command-line tool for retrieving PKGBUILDs and local source files for Arch Linux. It is able to retrieve files from the official SVN and CVS web interface, the AUR and the ABS rsync server.

pkgman

Pkgman is a bash script which helps to manage a local repository. It retrieves the PKGBUILD and related files for given name from ABS or AUR and lets you edit them, automatically generates checksums, backs up the source tarball, builds and adds the package to your local repository. Then you can install it as usual with pacman. It also has AUR support for submitting tarballs and leaving comments.

qpkg

Qpkg is a tool written in python for searching in all known repositories and on AUR. It can install and automatically update packages from AUR and it also can install all needed dependencies of a package from AUR.

slurpy

Slurpy is an aur helper written in python for searching AUR, downloading packages, showing information about packages, checking for updates and uploading a package to AUR.

srcman

srcman is a pacman/makepkg wrapper written in bash, which transparently handles pacman operations on `source packages'. This means, for example, that packages can be specified for installation either explicitly (pacman's -U operation) or can be installed from a (source) repository (-S operation). The address of an AUR pacman database can be found in the corresponding forum thread, by the way. The primary goal of this project is to provide a complete pacman wrapper and therefore, srcman supports all current pacman operations for binary _and_ source packages.

yaourt

Yet Another User Repository Tool. Yaourt is a community-contributed wrapper for pacman which adds seamless access to the AUR, allowing and automating package compilation and installation from your choice of the 11,000+ PKGBUILDs in the AUR, in addition to the many thousands of available Arch binary packages. Yaourt uses the same exact syntax as pacman, which saves you from relearning an entirely new method of system maintenance, but also adds new options. Yaourt expands the power and simplicity of pacman by adding even more useful features and provides pleasing, colorized output, interactive search mode, and much more.

yogurt

Yogurt is an Arch Linux related tool useful in building packages for unsupported software which is only provided by PKGBUILDs in the Arch Linux User Repository. Yogurt features a rudimentary dependency support both for standard repositories and the AUR.

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