Aurc

Fast Easy way to Install and Update Aur and Non-Aur Arch Linux Packages!

TODO

• Complete the essential pacman functions
• Ability to modify arch mirrorlist
• Implement aur helper
• Better inspection and secure aur package installation
• Better optimization
• Fully Move To Using C Libraries rather than command line wrapping

Requirements

• Dependencies -

  • less
  • pacman
  • curl
  • base-devel

Usage

• Actions :

  • update - ( Update outdated system/user packages )
  • refresh - ( Refresh Repository Database )
  • install - ( Install a package )
  • install-local - ( Install a local package )
  • install-aur - ( Install aur package )
  • install-force - ( Forcefully install a package )
  • modify-repo - ( Modify arch repositories )
  • query - ( Query if a package is installed )
  • search - ( Search for a package in the base repository )
  • search-aur - ( Search for a package in the aur repository )
  • remove - ( Remove a package )
  • remove-dep - ( Remove a package along with its dependencies )
  • remove-force - ( Forcefully remove a package even if other packages depend on it )
  • remove-orp - ( Remove orphan packages )

• Options :

  • --version, -v - ( Display the version of the package manager )
  • --help, -h - ( Display this help guide )

Installation

• Install dependencies :

  sudo pacman -S less gcc pacman make base-devel

• Method 1 :

  git clone https://github.com/statulr/aurc.git

  cd aurc/src

  sudo make install

• Method 2 :

  curl https://github.com/statulr/aurc/releases/latest/download/aurc-pkgbuild.tar.gz -o aurc-pkgbuild.tar.gz

  tar xvzf aurc-pkgbuild.tar.gz

  cd aurc-pkgbuild

  makepkg -si

• Method 3 :

  wget https://github.com/statulr/aurc/releases/latest/download/aurc-${version}-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

  or download the file from Github Releases

  sudo pacman -U aurc-${version}-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

Updating

git fetch & git pull

Then

sudo make clean install