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{{tip|It is '''strongly''' recommended to first visit the [http://aur.archlinux.org/ AUR website] and examine the relevant page(s) for any and all software intended to be installed. These pages contain comments from both existing users and package developers, which may provide valuable information (such as, warnings and/or solutions to problems). The AUR website can be found '''[http://aur.archlinux.org/ here]'''}} | {{tip|It is '''strongly''' recommended to first visit the [http://aur.archlinux.org/ AUR website] and examine the relevant page(s) for any and all software intended to be installed. These pages contain comments from both existing users and package developers, which may provide valuable information (such as, warnings and/or solutions to problems). The AUR website can be found '''[http://aur.archlinux.org/ here]'''}} | ||
Yaourt must be used in the terminal and is itself very similar to pacman to use; furthermore, as with pacman, it is not necessary to specify precise or complete package names in order to search for or download software. To search for and install software packages from the AUR, the syntax is: | Yaourt must be used in the terminal (or via [[Octopi]] as mention above, which will still you to a terminal session) and is itself very similar to pacman to use; furthermore, as with pacman, it is not necessary to specify precise or complete package names in order to search for or download software. To search for and install software packages from the AUR, the syntax is: | ||
yaourt [software package name] | yaourt [software package name] | ||