How to install software/packages from AUR (Arch User Repository)

Archlinux User Repository (AUR). If you are looking for a software but not available in the official repository. You can still search the software package on the "archlinux user repository" site. AUR is a community-driven repository for Arch users. It contains package descriptions/PKGBUILD that allow you to compile a package from source with makepkg then install it through pacman.


Aur URL official link : https://aur.archlinux.org

Installing software / packages from AUR (Arch User Repository)

1. Download Software Package in AUR

Please search for the AUR package that you want. Then click on the package, then see the box on the right.

Then select "Download snapshot". Then the tar.gz package will be downloaded. Open the downloaded file using the terminal / console

2. Extract the packages

Extract the packages with tar command.

$tar -xvzf packagesexample.tar.gz

3. Build packages

$cd packagesexample
$makepkg

if you want to automaticly resolving the dependencies you can add -s option.

$makepkg -s

The packages will be build

4. Install the packages

Login to root user

#pacman -U *.pkg.tar.xz

or

$sudo pacman -U *.pkg.tar.xz 

Packages will be installed

AUR Download with wget.

Please create a folder for software installation from AUR.

$mkdir AUR
$cd AUR

Install Wget

$sudo pacman -S wget

Search on AUR Websites, then right click on "Download Snapshot". Then copy, paste it in terminal

~AUR$wget - c pasteurlhere

Here's for the example of installation, see below "installing xarchiver"

Extracting and cd into the extracted folder

Then makepkg -s

Wait until package is created, at the end must be like this.

And finally installing the package, by typing sudo pacman -U *.pkg.tar.xz

And application is installed, enjoy. :D

AUR Software manager

I recommend the manual method above, but if you need software help you can try yaourt or pacman XG4 please see the following post.
- Yaourt
- Pacman XG4