Aurc

Fast & Easy way to Install/Update Aur and Non-Aur Arch Linux Packages!

UNDER DEVELOPMENT

• Still an alpha level code and udner heavy development for improvements and bug fixes and security concerns improvements.

TODO

• Complete the essential pacman functions
• Ability to modify arch mirrorlist
• Implement aur helper
• Better inspection and secure aur package installation
• Implementaion of libalpm instead of relying on pacman (requires careful attention)
• USe internel libraries for some dependencies (json, curl etc...)
• Reflector like easy mirror change functions
• Cleaning of probable messy code
• Better optimization
• More modularity of functions

Requirements

• Dependencies -

  • jq
  • less
  • pacman
  • curl
  • base-devel

Usage

• Actions :

  • update - ( Update outdated system/user packages )
  • refresh - ( Refresh Repository Database )
  • install - ( Install a package )
  • install-local - ( Install a local package )
  • install-aur - ( Install aur package )
  • install-force - ( Forcefully install a package )
  • modify-repo - ( Modify arch repositories )
  • query - ( Query if a package is installed )
  • search - ( Search for a package in the base repository )
  • search-aur - ( Search for a package in the aur repository )
  • remove - ( Remove a package )
  • remove-dep - ( Remove a package along with its dependencies )
  • remove-force - ( Forcefully remove a package even if other packages depend on it )
  • remove-orp - ( Remove orphan packages )

• Options :

  • --version, -v - ( Display the version of the package manager )
  • --help, -h - ( Display this help guide )

Install/Update

• Install dependencies :

  sudo pacman -S jq less curl gcc pacman make base-devel

• Install aurc :

  git clone https://github.com/rifsxd/aurc.git

  cd aurc/src

  sudo make install

• Update aurc :

  git fetch & git pull

  sudo make clean install