Paru

An AUR helper and pacman wrapper

Description

Paru is an AUR helper written in rust and based on the design of yay. It aims to be your standard pacman wrapping AUR helper with minimal interaction.

Installation

sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/paru.git
cd paru
makepkg -si

General tips

Man pages: For documentation on paru's options and config file see paru(8) and paru.conf(5) respectively.
Color: Paru only enables color if color is enabled in pacman. Enable color in your pacman.conf.
File based review: To get a more advanced review process enable FileManager with your file manager of choice in paru.conf.
Flip search order: To get search results to start at the bottom and go upwards, enable BottomUp in paru.conf.
Editing pkgbuilds: When editing pkgbuilds, you can commit your changes to make them perminent. When the package is upgraded, git will try and merge your changes with upstream's.
pkgbuild highlighting: bat can optionally be installed to enable highlighting of pkgbuild printing during review.

Examples

paru <target> -- interactive search and install of <target>

paru -- aliased to paru -Syu

paru -Sua -- upgrade AUR packages

paru -Qua -- print AUR updates

paru -G <target> -- download <target>'s pkgbuild and related files

paru -Gp <target> -- print <target>'s pkgbuild

paru --gendb -- generate the devel database for tracking -git packages. This is only needed when you initially start using paru.

Debugging

Paru is not an official tool. If paru can't build a package, you should first check if makepkg can successfully build the package. If it can't, then you should report the issue to the maintainer. Otherwise, it is likely an issue with paru and should be reported here.