Using pacman is basically using the AUR. I should’ve clarified that I love the AUR because you can search for any packages you want in your terminal in paru. It’s so convenient and amazing. In ubuntu you gotta search up what ppa repo it is or succumb to using flatpak.
I have to say I dont get the AUR I have been using Debian for the past 20 years and have tried Arch based out on my steam deck and in Distrobox on my sid gaming PC and I just don’t get it.
I hear all these great things about the AUR but when I tried it. It didn’t seem to be that much easier than building a Deb pkg or doing a make install from source. the way I hear people talk about it I figured it was just like installing from a source Repo on Debian.
please note I’m not saying anything bad about Arch I personally love the arch wiki it’s great to even fix things in Debian. I just personally don’t get it. maybe I’m not using it right or distobox does not give me the full experience. Any idea what I’m doing wrong?
For me, AURs main advantage is the huge library of software available. No mess resolving dependencies like when manually building from source and no issues with 3rd party repos breaking each others dependencies like in PPA
In Manjaro you just run this command, there’s a GU package manager as well, but I’ve never used it. Pamac takes care of downloading / building any required dependencies and the AUR repo includes any required patches for the application run well on Arch / Manjaro.
pamac build
I haven’t used Arch in years, but I believe it was something similar.
The whole system is pretty similar to, (but more refined than) FreeBSDs Ports tree.
For me the benefit of AUR isn’t necessarily the ease of download. It’s the fact that it’s community based and anyone can build a package for any software. I always git clone and then makepkg. I hate using yay because I want to read the PKGBLD myself and check the hash. I’ve found some obscure software via AUR that I wouldn’t be able to easily download on other distros. Further more the AUR website allows comments from the community which encourages bug fixes and/or a dialogue with specific package issues.
I’ve only hopped from Ubuntu to Arch. I’m currently messing with debian in a vm.
Staying on Arch because I love pacman+paru
AUR is also amazing
Using pacman is basically using the AUR. I should’ve clarified that I love the AUR because you can search for any packages you want in your terminal in paru. It’s so convenient and amazing. In ubuntu you gotta search up what ppa repo it is or succumb to using flatpak.
I have to say I dont get the AUR I have been using Debian for the past 20 years and have tried Arch based out on my steam deck and in Distrobox on my sid gaming PC and I just don’t get it.
I hear all these great things about the AUR but when I tried it. It didn’t seem to be that much easier than building a Deb pkg or doing a make install from source. the way I hear people talk about it I figured it was just like installing from a source Repo on Debian.
please note I’m not saying anything bad about Arch I personally love the arch wiki it’s great to even fix things in Debian. I just personally don’t get it. maybe I’m not using it right or distobox does not give me the full experience. Any idea what I’m doing wrong?
For me, AURs main advantage is the huge library of software available. No mess resolving dependencies like when manually building from source and no issues with 3rd party repos breaking each others dependencies like in PPA
yeah I get dependency resolution from apt build-dep in Debian but like what commands do you use to build a package with the AUR. From what I read it’s
search the AUR website git clone tar xf pag.tar makepkg -csi packagename
am I missing something or is there an easier way that I am just not seeing?
i promise I’m not trolling I really want to learn.
In Manjaro you just run this command, there’s a GU package manager as well, but I’ve never used it. Pamac takes care of downloading / building any required dependencies and the AUR repo includes any required patches for the application run well on Arch / Manjaro.
pamac build
I haven’t used Arch in years, but I believe it was something similar.
The whole system is pretty similar to, (but more refined than) FreeBSDs Ports tree.
but can you search the AUR from the CLI or or do you still need to git clone then pacmac build with the package buildID?
For me the benefit of AUR isn’t necessarily the ease of download. It’s the fact that it’s community based and anyone can build a package for any software. I always git clone and then makepkg. I hate using yay because I want to read the PKGBLD myself and check the hash. I’ve found some obscure software via AUR that I wouldn’t be able to easily download on other distros. Further more the AUR website allows comments from the community which encourages bug fixes and/or a dialogue with specific package issues.