yaourt: a pacman frontend

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About

Yaourt is a command line interface program which complete pacman for installing software on Archlinux.
Written by Julien Mischkowitz <wain at archlinux.fr> and Tuxce <tuxce.net at gmail.com>.

Overview

AUR support (search, install, check conflict and dependency)
Interactive search and install
Building packages directly from ABS source
Handling backup files: .pac*
Save, restore alpm database. Query directly from a backup file.
Search orphans and test local database
Support splitted packages

Get It

It’s recommended to read about AUR before, particularly about the packages needed to use it.
You can install yaourt from AUR:

wget http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/package-query/package-query.tar.gz
tar zxvf package-query.tar.gz
cd package-query
makepkg -si
cd ..
wget http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/yaourt/yaourt.tar.gz
tar zxvf yaourt.tar.gz
cd yaourt
makepkg -si
cd ..

or use our repository, add:

[archlinuxfr] 
Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/$arch

to /etc/pacman.conf, and run:

pacman -Sy yaourt

Examples

Search and install:

yaourt <search pattern>

Sync database, upgrade packages, search aur and devel (all packages based on dev version) upgrades:

yaourt -Syu --devel --aur

Build package from source:

yaourt -Sb <package>

Check, edit, merge or remove *.pac* files:

yaourt -C

Get a PKGBUILD (support splitted package):

yaourt -G <package>

Build and export package, its sources to a directory:

yaourt -Sb --export <dir> <package>

Backup database:

yaourt -B

Query backup file:

yaourt -Q --backupfile <file>

Screenshots

Links

Man pages: yaourt.8 yaourtrc.5
Forum (fr)
Bug tracker
Aur page
Browse git repo