YAOURT is short for Yet Another User Repository Tool. It is a tool for automatization of AUR package installation. Such a tool is needed to easily install user repository packages in Arch Linux and systems based on it, such as Manjaro Linux or Antergos. In this article, I will show you how to install Yaourt on Arch Linux 2018.
Two Ways to Install
As Yaourt itself is an AUR package, meaning it's unsupported in pacman by default, we have two ways to install it.
One of them is building the package from AUR, the other is adding a custom repository and downloading it using pacman. We will explore both methods. Although they are different, they share a common step. First, we will need to update your repositories and packages
$ sudo pacman -Syu :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date extra is up to date community is up to date :: Starting full system upgrade... resolving dependencies... looking for conflicting packages...
Now install the packages which we will help for yaourt.
$ sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel git wget yajl :: There are 26 members in group base-devel: :: Repository core 1) autoconf 2) automake 3) binutils 4) bison 5) fakeroot 6) file 7) findutils 8) flex 9) gawk 10) gcc 11) gettext 12) grep 13) groff 14) gzip 15) libtool 16) m4 17) make 18) pacman 19) patch 20) pkg-config 21) sed 22) sudo 23) systemd 24) texinfo 25) util-linux 26) which Enter a selection (default=all):
Press Enter to make a default selection when asked by the prompt.
1) Building From the AUR
As with all AUR packages, the first thing you need to do is acquire the build files. An AUR only dependency - package-query, is needed.
$ cd /opt
Now clone the packages query
$ git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/package-query.git Cloning into 'package-query'... remote: Counting objects: 45, done.
Enter the packages directory
$ cd package-query
Install the package.
$ makepkg -si
Now clone the yaourt repo
$ git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yaourt.git Cloning into 'yaourt'... remote: Counting objects: 26, done.
Do the same for the yaourt package itself:
# cd /opt/yaourt && makepkg -si ==> Making package: yaourt 1.9-1 (Sat Feb 3 03:36:28 WAT 2018) ==> Checking runtime dependencies... ==> Checking buildtime dependencies... ==> Retrieving sources...
That'd be all!
2) Installing Yaourt Using a Custom Repository
You must add a custom repository to your pacman repository list. So edit the pacman configuration file with your favourite text editor. We will use vim.
$ sudo vim nano /etc/pacman.conf
Add this piece of text at the bottom:
[archlinuxfr] SigLevel = Never Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/$arch
Save the file. Then, you can install the package:
$ sudo pacman -Sy yaourt $ sudo pacman -Sy yaourt :: Synchronizing package databases... archlinuxfr 12.1 KiB 80.6K/s 00:00 [######################] 100% core is up to date extra is up to date community is up to date warning: yaourt-1.9-1 is up to date -- reinstalling resolving dependencies... looking for conflicting packages... Packages (1) yaourt-1.9-1
Because I have already installed yaourt with the previous, you can see in my output that I have a warning message which tells me that yaourt is installed and up to date but it will try to reinstall.
How to Use yaourt (few examples)
Aside from using Yaourt to download and install AUR packages, you can use it as a pacman replacement and install any non-AUR package with it. Just type in:
$ yaourt -S htop resolving dependencies... looking for conflicting packages... Packages (1) htop-2.0.2-2 Total Download Size: 0.07 MiB Total Installed Size: 0.19 MiB :: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
As you would with pacman. The -Sy, -Syu options work as normal to sync database, upgrade packages:
$ yaourt -Syu :: Synchronizing package databases... archlinuxfr is up to date core is up to date extra is up to date community is up to date
in addition with --devel --aur options, it can search aur and devel (all packages based on dev version) upgrades:
$ yaourt -Syu --aur --devel :: Synchronizing package databases... archlinuxfr is up to date core is up to date extra is up to date community is up to date ==> upgrading SVN/CVS/HG/GIT package
You can list all the packages available and choose the one to be installed
$ yaourt list 1 core/acl 2.2.52-4 [installed] Access control list utilities, libraries and headers 2 core/libmnl 1.0.4-1 [installed] Minimalistic user-space library oriented to Netlink developers. 3 core/libpsl 0.19.1-1 [installed] ....... ....... 643 aur/zmeventserver-git 20171227.b6a8eca-2 (0) (0.00) A WSS (Secure Web Sockets) based event notification server that broadcasts new events to any authenticated listeners. ==> Enter n° of packages to be installed (e.g., 1 2 3 or 1-3) ==> --------------------------------------------------------- ==>
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