aur
A secure, multilingual package manager for Arch Linux and the AUR. (by fosskers)
pikaur
AUR helper with minimal dependencies. Review PKGBUILDs all in once, next build them all without user interaction. (by actionless)
| aur | pikaur | |
|---|---|---|
| 16 | 10 | |
| 1,640 | 833 | |
| - | - | |
| 8.0 | 9.2 | |
| 23 days ago | 3 days ago | |
| Haskell | Python | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
aur
Posts with mentions or reviews of aur.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-14.
- How do you guys manage AUR compilation?
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update/build aur -git packages
I haven't used aura in a while, but as far as I understand the command sudo aura -Au --devel will only update packages that need updates based on if there are new commits upstream. As of aura 3.0.0 the git clones are kept in /var/cache/aura/vcs and when aura checks if the package needs an update it just does a pull on the repo and checks if the version is newer, so you will only see packages listed that require an update. You can add the --force flag to rebuild all of them, but that will generally do a lot of unnecessary work rebuilding packages with no updates upstream.
- Dhall: A Gateway Drug to Haskell
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My transition from Windows to Linux in an anti-customer age
Yes, you need to use the CLI to run that, but it's trivial to do so and a real package management system brings many advantages over exe installers. The AUR, inspired by BSD's Ports, is one of the major advantages of Arch. It's very rare to find a package that isn't supported.
[1] - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/radarr
[2] - https://github.com/fosskers/aura
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Yay not working?
Same here. Checked the github page and they're aware of it. Should be fixed soon. In the mean time I've been using aura. It's pretty great, should be more popular imo.
- Yay or Paru!!??
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I was trying to make a cargo like tool for c++ but then I thought, "fuck c++"
That's why I use aura
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7 Useful Tools Written in Haskell
I found the discussion of the reasoning interesting: https://github.com/fosskers/aura/discussions/657
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Pamac, Manjaro's package manager GUI, has been blocked again from accessing the AUR due to it flooding the servers with requests
I've really enjoyed this one: https://github.com/fosskers/aura
- is yay safe/any good?
pikaur
Posts with mentions or reviews of pikaur.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-14.
- How do you guys manage AUR compilation?
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Using pikaur, how would I disable asking me "Do you want to edit PKGBUILD for <package_name> package? [Y/n]"
Have a look here. Did you not search for the answer? That's part of the Arch(based) ethos. We tend to like to learn by reading whatever is required. :)
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Nala v0.10.0 - Nala's A Legible Apt
I was also looking for something nicer for Arch, but haven't found anything as nice as Nala. For now, I switched to pikaur, which at least displays updates in a much clearer way.
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AUR helper
pikaur is a pretty great tool.
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I created a tool to install AUR packages in 1 click from the website: Aurin
Nice, but this definately needs a dependency resolver, otherwise it can only install a fraction of the available AUR packages. Since you're already using python, you may adapt your whole code on top a another python-based AUR helper like pikaur. You maybe also could take at the dep resolver of my ABS project. It's python, too, maybe not as clean as pikaur's code but simpler and not too integrated.
- Yay or Paru!!??
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Wholesome memes can be hard to not sound awkward
git clone https://github.com/actionless/pikaur.git python3 ./pikaur/pikaur.py -S pikaur
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True Arch user
pikaur!
- Which AUR-helper is recommended?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing aur and pikaur you can also consider the following projects:
paru - Feature packed AUR helper
yay - Yet another Yogurt - An AUR Helper written in Go
howdy - 🛡️ Windows Hello™ style facial authentication for Linux
cardano-node - The core component that is used to participate in a Cardano decentralised blockchain.
bauh - Graphical user interface for managing your Linux applications. Supports AppImage, Debian and Arch packages (including AUR), Flatpak, Snap and native Web applications
xmonad - The core of xmonad, a small but functional ICCCM-compliant tiling window manager
linux-inotify - Haskell binding to inotify.
trizen - Lightweight AUR Package Manager
linux-evdev - Deprecated in favor of the evdev package (https://hackage.haskell.org/package/evdev)
bat - A cat(1) clone with wings.