Yaourt
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Consider before asking for support:
- Prefer installing yaourt-git instead of yaourt as some features are broken in current version.
- Yaourt is an unofficial, unsupported third-party script.
- Please report bugs at archlinux.fr bugtracker
Yet AnOther User Repository Tool. Yaourt is a community-contributed wrapper for pacman which adds seamless access to the AUR, allowing and automating package compilation and installation from your choice of the thousands of PKGBUILDs in the AUR, in addition to the many thousands of available Arch binary packages. Yaourt uses the same exact syntax as pacman, which saves you from relearning an entirely new method of system maintenance, but also adds new options. Yaourt expands the power and simplicity of pacman by adding even more useful features and provides pleasing, colorized output, interactive search mode, and much more. You will almost certainly want this.
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Install
First of all
Install the "build-devel" package, so that you won't miss utilities like gcc or make later on.
pacman -S base-devel
Install
Install Yaourt through the AUR. In learning how to install yaourt this way, you will have the opportunity to learn how the AUR (and PKGBUILDs) work.
Open a web browser and head to the yaourt AUR page
Under package details click the "Tarball" link to download the tarball
Unpack the tarball
tar zxvf yaourt.tar.gz
Navigate into the new directory
cd yaourt
At this point; Make sure that you check the contents of the PKGBUILD and the yaourt.install files! This cannot be stressed enough. Don't worry: they aren't too complicated. If you see anything suspicious, get on IRC or the forum and ask about it.
more yaourt.install more PKGBUILD
If everything looks good. We are ready to build the packages.
makepkg
After this process is complete, you will see several new files and directories. You should be interested in the file that ends with *.pkg.tar.gz (in this case mine is named; yaourt-0.9.2-i686.pkg.tar.gz)
Now it's time to use pacman to install yaourt. Be sure to change the package name to the actual name of your package, don't just copy and paste this line
pacman -U yaourt-0.9.2-i686.pkg.tar.gz
Congratulations! You're done! Remember, this is the SAME process for almost all AUR PKGBUILDs.
See the yaourt man page for more.
Easy Install
The easiest way to install Yaourt is to add the yaourt repository to your /etc/pacman.conf:
For i686:
[archlinuxfr] Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/i686
For x86-64:
[archlinuxfr] Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/x86_64
Sync and install:
pacman -Sy yaourt
Proxy Settings
If you access the Internet through HTTP Proxy, you may have to set proxy for pacman in order to get it work. Otherwise you'll probably get "No route to host" when using yaourt, as yaourt doesn't take the environment variables set in ~/.profile, /etc/profile or wherever it is.
To set proxy, simply edit /etc/pacman.conf, assume that we are using curl to retrieve files. Add --proxy proxyhost:port after curl like below:
XferCommand = /usr/bin/curl --proxy proxy.hostname.com:port %u > %o
For more info check curl's man page.
Using yaourt
Detecting previous builds for dev PKGBUILDs
Julien Mischkowitz's (maintainer of yaourt) directions on how to get yaourt to detect previous build attempts for dev packages (CVS, SVN, Bzr, etc.):
This part is very old in yaourt and maybe needs to be updated :-)
Actually, yaourt search for variable ${_bzrtrunk} and ${_bzrmod} to detect if the PKGBUILD is one for a git/svn/bzr/cvs version.
So just replace "_bzr_branch='http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/emacs/trunk'" by "_bzrtrunk='http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/emacs/trunk'"
That is, be sure to have _${VCS}trunk and _${VCS}mod variables present in your PKGBUILD; i.e., _bzrtrunk and _bzrmod for Bzr packages, _hgtrunk and _hgmod for Mercurial packages, _gittrunk and _gitmod for Git, etc.