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Two packages are required in order to access the AUR:
Two packages are required in order to access the AUR:


# The '''base-developer''' group package to compile the downloads
* '''The base-developer group package:''' Rather than downloading pre-compiled software packages for installation, you will instead be downloading the instructions to build and compile them on your system. This group package is therefore required to do this. '''This should be pre-installed on Manjaro 0.8.1 onwards.'''
# Either '''yaourt''' or '''packer''' to search the AUR
 
 
* '''Either yaourt or packer:''' Either of these are used to search and download from the AUR, rather like pacman is used to search and download from from Manjaro's official repositories. Which you may chose is entirely down to personal preference. However, yaourt (an acronym for '''Y'''et '''A'''n'''O'''ther '''U'''ser '''R'''espository '''T'''ool) seems to be the most popular choice, perhaps due to providing additional features.


= Searching for Software Packages =
= Searching for Software Packages =