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= Accessing the AUR = | = Accessing the AUR = | ||
Two packages are required in order to access the AUR: | Two packages are required in order to access the AUR, which can be installed in the terminal: | ||
'''1. 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.''' | '''1. 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.''' | ||
'''2. 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. | '''2. 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. | ||
* To install the base developer group package and '''yaourt''', enter the command: | |||
sudo pacman -S base-devel yaourt | |||
* To install the base developer group package and '''packer''', enter the command: | |||
sudo pacman -S base-devel packer | |||
= Searching for Software Packages = | = Searching for Software Packages = | ||