AUR_bash

A simple script in Bash to interact with the Arch User Repository (AUR).

Arguments follow default pacman conventions:

usage: aur {option} [package]

options:
  -S, --sync           install selected package from AUR
  -Su, --update        update installed packages from AUR
  -Sy, --refresh       check for new package versions in AUR
  -Sw, --download      clone repository files from AUR only
  -Ss, --search        search for packages matching name
  -Sc, -Scc, --clean   remove uninstalled packages
  -R, --remove         remove a package and delete files
  -Q, -Qq, --query     check local installed packages
  -F, --find           find and list packages in AUR
  -w, --web            open AUR package page on web browser

Build package dependencies are installed from Arch repositories and then uninstalled.

Requirements

Requires package-query from AUR:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/package-query/

In order to install it, execute:

$ ./aur.sh -S package-query

Also requires jq from community repositories.

Current limitations

• Only installs missing packages from Arch repos with makepkg.

• Only accepts a single package parameter for now due to lazy arg parsing. ^^"

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