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= Accessing the AUR = | = Accessing the AUR = | ||
All the necessary software needed to access and use the AUR should have already been pre-installed for you in Manjaro 0.8.4. | All the necessary software needed to access and use the AUR should have already been pre-installed for you in Manjaro (since 0.8.4). If you installed your system with an earlier release of Manjaro, it may be necessary to install these packages manually. They are: | ||
'''1. The base-developer group of packages:''' Rather than downloading pre-compiled software packages for installation, you will instead be downloading the instructions for Manjaro to build and compile them on your system. The base-developer group package is required to do this. | '''1. The base-developer group of packages:''' Rather than downloading pre-compiled software packages for installation, you will instead be downloading the instructions for Manjaro to build and compile them on your system. The base-developer group package is required to do this. | ||
'''2. yaourt''': This is used to search and download from the AUR, rather like '''[[pacman]]''' is used to search and download from from Manjaro's official repositories. Just like ''pacman'' it will also automatically find and download the necessary dependencies for downloaded software as well, provided that the software packages themselves have properly stated which dependencies are needed. | '''2. yaourt''': This is used to search and download from the AUR, rather like '''[[pacman]]''' is used to search and download from from Manjaro's official repositories. Just like ''pacman'' it will also automatically find and download the necessary dependencies for downloaded software as well, provided that the software packages themselves have properly stated which dependencies are needed. | ||
To install the base-developer group and yaourt, enter the following command in your terminal: | To install the base-developer group and yaourt, enter the following command in your terminal: | ||
sudo pacman -S base-devel yaourt | sudo pacman -S base-devel yaourt | ||
= Searching for and Installing Software From the AUR = | = Searching for and Installing Software From the AUR = | ||