Yaourt

What is it?
"A pacman frontend for Archlinux"
Yaourt is a command line interface program which complete pacman for installing software on Archlinux. Written by Julien Mischkowitz.

Screenshots:

Installation:

• Edit:
  # nano /etc/pacman.conf
• And add:
  [archlinuxfr]
Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/i686
  Or
  [archlinuxfr]
Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/x86_64
• Update & install:
  # pacman -Sy yaourt

Yaourt + sudo:

• Edit:
  # nano /etc/sudoers
• Edit it to something like this:
  # User alias specification
User_Alias POWERUSER=user

# Cmnd alias specification
Cmnd_Alias YAOURT=/usr/bin/pacman, /usr/bin/pacdiffviewer

# User privilege specification
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
POWERUSER ALL=(ALL) YAOURT

Utilization:

• Search and install
  yaourt [keywords]: quick search + install
  yaourt -S [packages] : install package, Compile it from AUR if needed
  yaourt -Ss [keywords] : search on repos and on AUR (with notice for already installed packages)
  yaourt -Sb [packages] : install a packages by compilation from sources (abs)
  yaourt -Sl [repos] : prompt for packages of the selected repos (emphasize those already installed)
  yaourt -Qs [keywords] : colorized ouput of installed packages and the repos where they come from
  yaourt -Qo [progname] or [filename] : shows the package which provides the program or the file
  

• Updgrade:
  yaourt -Syu : complete update and upgrade of the system (onlys from repos)
  yaourt -Syu --aur : complete update and upgrade, even for packages coming from AUR
  yaourt -Sybu --aur : complete update and upgrade by compilation of all packages (repos and AUR)
  yaourt -Su --devel : update and upgrade of cvs/svn/mercurial/git packages
  

• Cleaning:
  yaourt -C : editing and merging of .pacnew/.pacsave
  yaourt -Cc : removal of all .pacnew/.pacsave
  yaourt -Qt : search for orphaned packages
  yaourt -Cd : search for obsolete repos
  

• Other options:
  --export [directory] : exports compiled packages for gensync
  yaourt -S --aur [packages] : forces compilation from AUR for a packages which is also in repos
  yaourt -G [packages] : retrive PKGBUILD and local sources in current directory.
  yaourt -B : backup the pacman database

Read more at:
» http://archlinux.fr/yaourt-en/
» http://wiki.archlinux.fr/howto:archlinux:yaourt