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Feature packed AUR helper

paru paru-bin paru-git

Description

Paru is your standard pacman wrapping AUR helper with lots of features and minimal interaction.

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Installation

sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/paru.git
cd paru
makepkg -si

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

General Tips

Examples

paru <target> -- Interactively search and install <target>.

paru -- Alias for paru -Syu.

paru -S <target> -- Install a specific package.

paru -Sua -- Upgrade AUR packages.

paru -Qua -- Print available AUR updates.

paru -G <target> -- Download the PKGBUILD and related files of <target>.

paru -Gp <target> -- Print the PKGBUILD of <target>.

paru -Gc <target> -- Print the AUR comments of <target>.

paru --gendb -- Generate the devel database for tracking *-git packages. This is only needed when you initially start using paru.

paru -Bi . -- Build and install a PKGBUILD in the current directory.

IRC

Paru now has an IRC. #paru on Libera Chat. Feel free to join for discussion and help with paru.

Debugging

Paru is not an official tool. If paru can't build a package, you should first check if makepkg can successfully build the package. If it can't, then you should report the issue to the maintainer. Otherwise, it is likely an issue with paru and should be reported here.