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'''The AUR can be accessed with the GUI tools Pamac and Octopi (via yaourt). This is the easiest way for beginners. ''' | '''The AUR can be accessed with the GUI tools Pamac and Octopi (via yaourt). This is the easiest way for beginners. ''' | ||
The necessary software needed to access and use the AUR within a terminal: | The necessary software needed to access and use the AUR within a terminal: | ||
'''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- | '''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-devel'' 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 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 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. | ||
(<u>Note for KDE Edition users</u>: The default install includes most of the base-devel package, so in most cases you can skip installing base-devel in command below) | |||
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: | ||