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AurShell is a shell like application written in Python. With plugins included, it's possible to build and install packages from AUR, ABS, and even wrap Pacman.

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AURshell

.. or simply aursh is is Python shell, that should help you with building and installing packages from ABS and AUR. It also can be pacman wrapper (but actually pacman is awesome without any third party tool), and even more -just write plugin.

How to start?

  1. Download PKGBUILD, extract it, build package, install:

    wget http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/aurshell-git/aurshell-git.tar.gz

    tar -xvvf aurshell-git.tar.gz

    cd aurshell-git

    makepkg -i

  2. Read the install message and copy base configuration file to your $HOME directory

    cp /usr/share/aurshell/aurshell.conf $HOME/.aurshell

  3. Run aursh. Type either aursh to start interactive shell or aursh <command> to use it as simple script.

  4. Use help command to learn how to use it.

Bugs

If you know how to improve aurshell or you've found a bug, please contact me (see my profile)