morganamilo/pikaur

AUR helper with minimal dependencies. Review PKGBUILDs all in once, next build them all without user interaction.

pikaur

AUR helper with minimal dependencies. Review PKGBUILDs all in once, next build them all without user interaction.

Inspired by pacaur, yaourt and yay.

• Installation
• Run without installation
• Configuration
• Directories
• FAQ
• Contributing
• • Translations

Installation

git clone https://github.com/actionless/pikaur.git
cd pikaur
makepkg -fsri

Run without installation

git clone https://github.com/actionless/pikaur.git
cd pikaur
python3 ./pikaur.py -Ss AUR_PACKAGE_NAME
python3 ./pikaur.py -S AUR_PACKAGE_NAME
python3 ./pikaur.py -Syu

Configuration

~/.config/pikaur.conf

[sync]

AlwaysShowPkgOrigin (default: no)

when installing new packages show their repository name even if they are coming from one of the official Arch Linux repositories.

[colors]

terminal colors, from 0 to 15

Version (default: 10)

VersionDiffOld (default: 11)

VersionDiffNew (default: 9)

Directories

~/.cache/pikaur/
├── aur_repos/  # keep there aur repos; show diff when updating
│   └── last_installed.txt  # aur repo hash of last successfully installed package
├── build/  # build directory (removed after successfull build)
└── pkg/  # built packages directory
~/.config/pikaur.conf  # config file

FAQ

How to avoid of automatically importing GPG keys?

It's recommended to control the keys manually. However if you know what you doing, keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve GPG option will automatically import GPG keys.

Contributing

Translations

To start working on a new language, say 'es' (Spanish), add it to the Makefile LANGS variable and run make. Then translate locale/es.po using your favorite PO editor. Run make every time the Python code strings change or the .po is modified.

Once done, don't forget to distribute the new language by adding it to the PKGBUILD package().