README.md

An AUR Helper with support for downloading AUR packages with either tarballs or git.
TabAUR aims to be a fast, lightweight, capable, and safe front-end for pacman, that supports and even helps you with AUR stuff!

Note

TabAUR has decided to become public in April 27 2024 since we agreed that is almost in a good beta shape.

Expect bugs and some problems to happen, though we believe that there won't be too many bugs since it was well tested for installing, upgrading and querying

Some features:

• Customizable colors
• Fast with near/same perfomances as pacman (for searching and querying)
• Doesn't leak memory when running -h, unlike 2 popular AUR helpers lol
• Support for using AUR packages' either tarballs or git repos
• Currently less than 2mb without -O2
• Upcoming useful features

Installation

Release (recommended)

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/tabaur-bin.git && cd tabaur-bin
makepkg -si

Release (compile from source)

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/tabaur.git && cd tabaur
makepkg -si

Development

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/tabaur-git.git && cd tabaur-git
makepkg -si

Development (manually)

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/BurntRanch/TabAUR && cd TabAUR
make
sudo make install

Can your average C++/Rust/(any non-interpreted language) project compile that easy in many ways? I don't think so :P

Dependencies

• pacman

"that's it?" yes. just pacman. and it's dependencies ofc, which includes curl

Optional Dependencies

• sudo: privilege escalation
• opendoas: privilege escalation
• git: for using AUR packages git repos
• tar: for using AUR packages tarballs (.tar.gz)

Pull requests

If you want to make a PR that fixes/adds functionality, even fix some comments typos, feel free to do so! :)
Be free to test and try out TabAUR

TODO

• Complete translations for ar_SA and (up to toni) it_IT