ArchLinux User-community Repository (AUR)
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[edit] Overview
The ArchLinux User-Community Repository (AUR) is a community-driven repository for Arch users. The AUR was initially conceived to organize the sharing of PKGBUILDs amongst the wider community and to expedite the inclusion of popular user-contributed packages into the community repo.
It is called the birthplace of Arch's new packages--in the AUR, the users contribute their own packages. The AUR community votes for or against them, and once a package has been voted high enough, a AUR Trusted User takes it to the [community] repository, which is accessible via pacman and ABS.
[edit] Important Documents
Besides this article, please make sure to read the AUR User Guidelines if you want to be an AUR User, and the AUR Trusted User Guidelines if you plan to be a Trusted User.
[edit] Getting Started
- A short tutorial to installing packages from AUR can be found here. For detailed information on building packages from the AUR please see the makepkg article.
- The AUR User Guidelines explains you how how to enable the [community] repository in pacman and ABS.
- Visit the AUR Web Interface to inform yourself on updates and happenings. There you will also find statistics and an up-to-date list of newest available packages available in AUR.
- Also take a look at the AUR Q & A.
[edit] History
The following items are listed for historical purposes only. They have since been superseded by the AUR and are no longer available.
[edit] Incoming
At the beginning, there was:
ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/incoming
and people contributed by simply uploading the PKGBUILD, the needed supplementary files and the built Package itself to the server. The package remained there until a Package Maintainer saw it and adopted it.
[edit] Trusted User Repositories
Then the Trusted User Repositories were born--certain individuals in the community were allowed to host their own repositories for anyone to use. The AUR expanded on this basis, with the aim of making it both more flexible and more usable. In fact, the AUR maintainers are still referred to as TUs (Trusted Users).