Arch Linux doesn't comes with aurman inbuilt. We have to install it manually. In this article atfirst we will install aurman manually and then install a package using aurman.
AUR (Arch User Repository) is a community-driven repository for Arch Linux users, containing PKGBUILDs (package descriptions) that allow you to compile a package from source with makepkg and then install it via pacman.
Step 1: Install these packages
Ensure the base-devel package group is installed. And also git should be installed to download packages. python-pip required to install setuptools
sudo pacman -S base-devel git python-pip
Step 2: Install setuptools
Install setuptools using pip.
pip install setuptools
Step 3: Download AUR package
Search and download PKGBUILDs from the AUR Web Interface
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/aurman.git
Step 4: Install aurman
- Change dir to aurman (downloaded package)
cd aurman
This PKGBUILD can be built into installable packages using makepkg, then installed using pacman.
makepkg -si — skippgpcheck
Finally aurman installed.
Step 5: Run this command
aurman -Syu
Done !!!
* Step 1: Search the package using Name or Description ?
Suppose I need nodejs.
aurman -Ss node js
You will find many packages, check their description.
* STEP 2: Install package
aurman -S nodejs
